[PLUG] Re: Checking Bandwidth for Large Downloads

["James Fiore" <jfiore@absurgery.org>]

This will not help you for the process you already have running but is a
great way of keeping track of your downloads.

>From a shell run:

wget -b <url to download>

it will download your file using wget and will immediately send the
process to the background while writing the progress every few seconds
to a file called wget-log.

You can then at any time from anywhere ssh into your server and tail the
wget-log to get a current status of how much of the file has been
downloaded and what your current average transfer rate is for the
download.
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