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What units does wget use for bandwidth?

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Mar 15, 20268586 views
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When downloading, wget reports speed in "K/s". K...what? kilobits? kilobytes? 1024 or 1000? Update: produces "348 K/s". Meanwhile: nethogs says "343 KB/sec" for the entire Wi-Fi connection System Monitor says 364 "KiB/s" for the entire Wi-Fi connection Tomato says "3010.44 kbit/s (367.48 KB/s)" for…

Error Output

wget -O /dev/null http://newark1.linode.com/100MB-newark.bin

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I would guess K stands for kilobytes. In the GNU Wget 1.12 Manual, K always stands for kilobytes.

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