diff --git a/server/upstream.py b/server/upstream.py
index b7e3350..659abf4 100644
--- a/server/upstream.py
+++ b/server/upstream.py
@@ -83,15 +83,16 @@ def get_stream(url, timeout=12):
         return r
 
 
-def fetch_parallel(url, lanes=4, lane=256 * 1024, timeout=12):
-    """One upstream file across N parallel byte-range lanes.
+def fetch_parallel(url, lanes=16, lane=32 * 1024, timeout=12):
+    """One upstream file across N parallel byte-range lanes (16, like yt-dlp's
+    -N 16 / ani-cli's download path).
 
     Per-connection CDN throttling is the common slow-segment cause; N lanes
     turn one 60s crawl into N concurrent crawls (I/O-bound, GIL irrelevant).
     Returns (body, content-type); raises on ANY failure so the caller falls
     back to the single-request path — never worse than before.
     Verified 2026-08 against hls.anidb.app: HEAD -> content-length,
-    ranges -> 206, 4 lanes -> byte-identical stitch (sha256)."""
+    ranges -> 206, multi-lane -> byte-identical stitch (sha256)."""
     from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
     head = _session().head(url, **{**H, "timeout": timeout})
     head.raise_for_status()