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Manual wget vs. freevps script wget speed discrepancy
I'm sure this is a dumb question, but my scripting knowledge is super limited so I'm curious- why does the FreeVPS speed test script wget give a completely different speed result than a plain wget?
For example:
wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip
--2014-02-13 02:18:02-- http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip
Resolving speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com... 208.43.102.250
Connecting to speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com|208.43.102.250|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104874307 (100M) [application/zip]
Saving to: `/dev/null'
100%[=========================================================================>] 104,874,307 56.9M/s in 1.8s
2014-02-13 02:18:04 (56.9 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104874307/104874307]
wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test100.zip 2>&1 | awk '/\/dev\/null/ {speed=$3 $4} END {gsub(/(|)/,"",speed); print speed}'
25.5MB/s
I know this isn't just a regular network speed variation thing, because I can run the test over and over and get slightly different results for each but the same consistently large difference between the two. Same with a different test file, different time of day, etc.
