> 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. The information on this page maybe helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Deviation_between_powers_of_1024_and_powers_of_1000 The version of wget that I have is GNU Wget 1.16.3 built on darwin14.4.0. It appears that the most recent version is GNU Wget 1.17.1 I wonder whether the current version still uses 1 MB == 2^20 B, or whether it now uses 1 MB == 10^6 B. If someone is interested in this question, it would probably be easiest to simply try running the current Wget. Or one could look at the source, if one is so inclined. I thought someone here might be interested in the question. If not, I'll take it to FSF, but I thought I'd start local. -- Peter [email protected] --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
