[PhilK]

I must be missing something here. If something at 8 Mbps takes 62 seconds (1 min 3 sec) to download and then it takes 275 seconds, 4 min 35 sec, the difference is 63/275 which is 0.229 (22.9% of what it was) which means it was running at ~ .229 * 8 Mb/s = 1.83 Mb/s (22.9% of the initial speed)

Now, his comment that he then tried to download an App took so long he gave up means that he was probably throttled back to 0.07 Mb/s at this point but this was the second download past his going over his limit.

At 0.07 Mb/s this makes sense because .07 is over 114 times slower so 63 sec * 114 = 7182 seconds, == 119 min, or almost 2 hours!

Now we understand why he gave up the second time around. But, his numbers DO NOT indicate an instant throttling back to 0.07 Mb/s.

Unless there was some kind of memory since he was downloading something he had already downloaded?

In any event it probably wouldn't matter much to someone who had gone over the limit.

Just an asside, mbps = millibits/sec = / 1000. Mbps = Megabits/sec = X 1000

pk

This post has been edited by PhilK: 11 May 2012 - 09:00 AM

[coastie65]

I have FiOS so there is no problem with throttling.