Just off the top. Wget would not account for the packet overhead. 5% overhead may be reasonable depending on your MTU.
On 03/22/2016 08:07 PM, Peter Renzland wrote: > Wget can be used to measure download data rate. > For example, > wget --output-document=/dev/null > http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip > > Then observe the progress meter and kill the process. > > IMHO, wget thinks a MB is 2^20 (== 1MiB), instead of 10^6. This results in a > 5% error. > (Softlayer seems to have made the same error.) > > Am I wrong? Have others noticed that? According to wget's definition of > "bug", this error does not seem to be a "bug". Or? > (It doesn't crash -- just gives a wrong answer, based on a wrong assumption.) > > -- Peter [email protected] > > > > > > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk -- Alvin Starr || voice: (905)513-7688 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 [email protected] || --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
