If you want to do this as the download is happening you can use the filehandle method of Net::FTP... 
$| = 1; # autoflush, because we are using \b to overwrite current line
my $time = time();
my $FILE = $FTP->stor($filename);
my ($buf,$bytes);
while(my $bytecount = $FILE->read($buf, 10024)) {
  $bytes += $bytecount;
  print "\b",($bytes/(time()-$time+.01),"b/s"; # .01 to prevent divide
+ by zero
}

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This is by no means tested, and, could probably be tweaked much better, but it gives the idea.

I not sure but maybe Benchmark's timeit function would be a good way to get back the time the $FTP->get takes, as well... rather than grabbing POSIX::times... that is if you want better than a second granularity :)

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In reply to Re: Net::FTP question by suaveant
in thread Reporting Progress With Net::FTP (was : Net::FTP question) by smoss

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