Bug 121318

Summary:	kget feature wish: add transfer speed to log file--good for determining mirror speeds and scheduling
Product:	[Applications] kget	Reporter:	Terence Galati <tgalati4>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KGet authors <kget>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Terence Galati 2006-02-03 20:10:15 UTC

Version:           v0.8.4 (using KDE 3.4.3, Kubuntu Package 4:3.4.3-0ubuntu2 )
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.12-9-386

I wrote a cheesy mawk script to calculate speeds from the log file, but it would neat to have it displayed as a separate line after "file downloaded".

When downloading podcasts from different mirrors, it is helpful to see the average download speeds at different times of the day.  This also helps with download scheduling.

A future version of kget could then make decisions as to scheduling based on download speeds vs time-of-day.  For instance, if a mirror is heavily loaded at midnight, it's download speeds over time will reflect that in the log.  kget could then suggest a better time, or use fuzzy scheduling such as "about midnight".

Thanks for listening,

Terry G.
West Hills California