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Posted by Craig Coope on November 30, 2007, 6:15 am
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>I find that when downloading a file, the initial kbps speed shown
>typically starts out much faster than it ends up. It might show a
>speed of 15 or 20 kbps and then eventually winds down to typically
>around 5 kbps.
>
>During those initial seconds when the speed is higher, it might d/l
>300 or 400 kb really quick, at a much faster pace than it does for the
>rest of the download.
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>It seems that the modem is capable of taking the data much more
>rapidly than the speed at which it maintains the download, why doesn't
>it maintain the higher speed?
I don't know if this is true but someone once told me this...
When you get the prompt to download and save a file it is already
downloading the file whilst u select its save destination. Because of
this, when Windows calculates how much of the file it has already it
gives a false reading as it assumes it has 200K etc in a couple of
seconds...
I had dial-up for years and only once saw a true download speed that
was higher than 5k...I managed to get 12K download constantly using a
peer-peer app once...
I may be completely wrong about the abov though.....
--
The Zero ST
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>typically starts out much faster than it ends up. It might show a
>speed of 15 or 20 kbps and then eventually winds down to typically
>around 5 kbps.
>
>During those initial seconds when the speed is higher, it might d/l
>300 or 400 kb really quick, at a much faster pace than it does for the
>rest of the download.
>
>It seems that the modem is capable of taking the data much more
>rapidly than the speed at which it maintains the download, why doesn't
>it maintain the higher speed?