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.)
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