JonCzerwinski

You could do the calculation yourself by using something like measure-command {invoke-webrequest https://testmy.net/dl-100MB} Unfortunately, powershell incurs so much overhead that in my brief attempts, I found that powershell was taking almost 10 times as long to complete the download test as wget: PS C:\Users\Jon> measure-command {invoke-webrequest https://testmy.net/dl-100MB} Days : 0 Hours : 0 Minutes : 1 Seconds : 26 Milliseconds : 368 Ticks : 863686547 TotalDays : 0.000999637207175926 TotalHours : 0.0239912929722222 TotalMinutes : 1.43947757833333 TotalSeconds : 86.3686547 TotalMilliseconds : 86368.6547 vs C:\Users\Jon\Downloads\wget-1.11.4-1-bin\bin>wget https://testmy.net/dl-100MB SYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc syswgetrc = C:\Users\Jon\Downloads\wget-1.11.4-1-bin/etc/wgetrc --2015-06-05 06:18:47-- https://testmy.net/dl-100MB Resolving testmy.net... 75.126.52.197 Connecting to testmy.net|75.126.52.197|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: `dl-100MB' [ <=> ] 104,936,653 10.5M/s in 9.5s 2015-06-05 06:18:59 (10.5 MB/s) - `dl-100MB' saved [104936653]