Hi,
All supported versions of Ubuntu suffer from crashes in wget (1.x) in printing of the download speed. I've been getting this on various servers. It's been fixed upstream and should probably be included in 'updates' of all supported Ubuntu versions.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/wget.git
Commit 04ab35666997fbb3cd5d72497415fb3dfd62dcc5
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2023-08/msg00001.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wget/+bug/2029930
Patch attached.
Regards,
Wiebe