> > I get annoyed when I'm chatting with friends, waiting to play some game > we decided to download, and it's ONLY downloading at 300 megabits per > second! :P
In this scenario, which mechanism controls the download speed? I hear many users complain that their gigabit internet connection is not maxing out and the update is taking forever. I would never expect a gigabit internet connection to be saturated during a game update, but I'm curious how the throttling works. Thanks. > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 1:22 PM Chris Adams <c...@cmadams.net> wrote: > Once upon a time, Hugo Slabbert <h...@slabnet.com> said: > > > This just follows the same rules as networks have always seemed to; If > > you build it, they will come, and you'll have to build more. :) > > > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand > > Yep, just like your disk space requirements will always grow to 110% of > available space. > > I get annoyed when I'm chatting with friends, waiting to play some game > we decided to download, and it's ONLY downloading at 300 megabits per > second! :P > -- > Chris Adams <c...@cmadams.net> >