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

Peter Renzland renzland at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 02:45:16 UTC 2016


It seems that the problem is bigger than Wget -- it seems to be FSF-wide:

https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/

That page gives sizes for various files, and it's clear that they are using kB, but they mean KiB.

-- Peter Renzland at gmail.com






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