Re: [PLUG] Re: Checking Bandwidth for Large Downloads

[John Fiore <fiorejp@yahoo.com>]

wget is great.  I didn't know about that feature for
it.

I do it with ftp downloads using ncftp.  You can run
the download in the background in a similar manner to
the one you've described.

So what have you downloaded today besides the Fedora
ISOs?

--- James Fiore <jfiore@absurgery.org> wrote:
> 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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