* how long it will take for 100 mb transfer to finish
* how quickly is another transfer going
* how fast is the upstream on this ADSL line
* how fast is data written to a file system.
Speedometer measures network traffic and the speed or progress of a certain file transfer. Let's say you want to see how fast someone can download a file from your server and how the download is going in real time. Enter speedometer filename, and the program will draw a progress bar that shows the speed of the transfer.
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