15. Basic tests of computer networks

15.5. wget

Wget is a console programme that is used to download files. Wget returns the download speed so we get information about the download performance of our internet connection.

Example:

In the terminal I type:

wget https://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stable311/moodle-latest-311.tgz -O moodle-latest-311.tgz 

This means that I will be downloading a file from the server https://download.moodle.org, I will save the downloaded file under the name moodle-latest-311.tgz

After issuing the command in the terminal, wget returns the following:

--2022-03-31 11:31:57-- https://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stable311/moodle-latest-311.tgz

Resolving download.moodle.org (download.moodle.org).... 104.22.64.81, 104.22.65.81, 172.67.26.233, ...

Connecting to download.moodle.org (download.moodle.org)|104.22.64.81|:443.... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 60212386 (57M) [application/g-zip].

Saving to: 'moodle-latest-311.tgz'

moodle-latest-311.tgz 100%[=================================================================================================================>]  57.42M 11.0MB/s in 5.2s    

2022-03-31 11:32:03 (11.1 MB/s) - 'moodle-latest-311.tgz' saved [60212386/60212386].


We can see the speed at which the file was downloaded - 11.0 MB/s 


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