internet question

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:38 pm

I have a 6.5 megabit per second connection, meaning I get what, about ~800kb/s download on a good day. Why is it that when I download stuff in Firefox, my downloads start downloading at a HUUUGE speed. For example, when I was downloading the 5.7 Cat drivers (33mb), the download started with 12mb right away, and the download speed went down from 9000kb/s to 1100kb/s and going down steadily, but it was done before it could reach a stable speed. Why does this happen?

Post by **Tormentius** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:49 pm

It dependent on the upstream bandwidth of their servers.

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Post by **Doombrain** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:00 pm

It’s not an actual reading of speed you’re seeing but an average speed over an estimated time.

Post by **shadd_** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 4:04 pm

the download buffer starts to fill before windows starts showing you the stats.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 1:30 am

Oh, because its weird, right after I click "download" BAM! 12mb out of 33 done...

Post by **4g3nt_Smith** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 2:19 am

ToxicBug wrote:Oh, because its weird, right after I click "download" BAM! 12mb out of 33 done...

This same thing happens to me on Firefox, I'll click a download link, and as soon as the downloads window pops up, theres already a meg or two downloaded.

Post by **Scourge** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 2:23 am

Yeah, same here.

Post by **schlockey** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 2:32 am

Well if you click a download link in your browser it started downloading to a temporary location right away before you browse to where you want to save it.

Post by **4g3nt_Smith** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 3:57 am

schlockey wrote:Well if you click a download link in your browser it started downloading to a temporary location right away before you browse to where you want to save it.

FF is set to auto-save to a certain location...

Post by **^misantropia^** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 8:09 am

FF prefetches links from the page. My copy does, anyway.