If you are familiar with linux/unix then there is a simpler method using wget/curl.

Steps:

• Initiate download via takeout page in your browser
• Go to "Window->Downloads"
• Locate the download which is in-progress right now
• Right click + Copy link address
• From your terminal - wget '{url}'

wget is more stable. you can manually set timeouts.

Bonus: you can initiate this from a remote server. I have seen speeds upto 250 MBps from remote servers. Just be sure not to cancel the browser download before your wget finishes.

Thanks! As of 04/2022 this still works. :) I would recommend using screen if you are using wget on a remote server through ssh. – daco Apr 2 at 8:47

I would also add the use of wget this way wget -O customname "url" as wget, in my case, did not use the file name and just part of the url as the filename (which makes it hard to identify which file is which). – daco Apr 2 at 8:52