1,832 Mbps connection?

Question

So this happens.

$ wget http://www.bing.com
--2014-01-22 21:17:42--  http://www.bing.com/
Resolving www.bing.com... 204.79.197.200
Connecting to www.bing.com|204.79.197.200|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘index.html’

    [ <=>              ] 43,969      --.-K/s   in 0s

2014-01-22 21:17:43 (229 MB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [43969]

229 MB/s (=1,832 Mbps) What? What I'm trying to do is calculate my connection speed. I'm sure of two things:

1. Either we don't typically understand connection speed, or
2. wget is not monitoring speed correctly

My question is, can you explain this, and can you give me an easy way to monitor connection speed to see if it goes down?

Answer 1

Download a bigger file.

Your 44kb file takes about a hundredth of a second to download, and this is not sufficient to accurately measure sustained throughput.

The file should download for at least 10 seconds, and you should ignore the first 5 of those.