As a wishlist bug I would like a transfer rate information to be shown on wget command execution as it can be helpful to quick test your bandwidth is behaving on that particular connection.
bbox has other tools for this: # nmeter '%t %[neth0]' 10:46:13 670 270 10:46:14 1259 246 10:46:15 14k 5433 10:46:16 1072 0 10:46:17 1002 0 10:46:18 720 0 10:46:19 861 66 10:46:20 1374 0 ...