[Qt-interest] wget vs. QHttp download

[amulya rattan]

Guys,

Recently I have been trying to calculate the download speed for our network,
so basically what I did was just use QHttp to download a file on the server
and calculate the time it took to figure out the network speed. However, the
speed estimates I got were rather off the track, which led me to try out
wget. With wget, the speed estimates are pretty much on the spot. Does
anyone know why such a difference exists? I understand that the network
speed can go up and down and it could be what is happening in this case BUT
I have tried this thing literally hundreds of times now and everytime its
wget that gives a proper estimate. QHttp download for some reason is always
"slower".

Going through wget source code doesn't provide any lead as to what "special"
it is doing. Has anyone else seen this behavior? Any pointers are
appreciated.

~Amulya
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