date; netcomics -g "wget -quiet -O - " -v -w=10; date
Wed Jun 16 14:25:33 CDT 1999
...
Wed Jun 16 14:31:32 CDT 1999
= 6 minutes

date ; netcomics -v -w=10 ; date
Wed Jun 16 14:37:29 CDT 1999
...
Wed Jun 16 14:44:47 CDT 1999
= 7 minutes 20 seconds