[GTALUG] Wget under-reports data transfer rate ("bandwidth") by 5%

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 Renzland@gmail.com