> I initially connected at 48000 so my transfers
> should be higher than 1.4 kbps right? Right, so the download started at
> 5.00 kbps but it quickly slowed down to about 2.8 (fine with me...) but it
> didn't stop there... The transfer rate went down to about 1.3 and then
> eventually "stalled" ( I think this is what the download window said...)
> Could anyone tell me what was happening?
Well, it helps to realize that your connection speed only sets a limit to
the transfer rate of your downloads -- it doesn't guarantee them.
If you're downloading directly from the machine you're dialed into (very
few people can say that they are, is my guess), then you're probably going
to run downloads right up to your connection speed, as that will be the
limiting factor.
When you're downloading from somewhere else, there are lots of
intermediate bottlenecks before we consider your connection speed.
The reason it started high and dropped later was a result of the way the
transfer rate is computed -- it's the total download size over the total
amount of time spent downloading. As soon as the number started dropping,
the connection was actually stalled (unless the % count went up, then it
was "mostly stalled"). No more bytes were coming in but the time keeps
increasing. Netscape doesn't put "stalled" up there for many seconds
without data coming in.
Try different places -- some of the fastest downloads are from RTP (I
think one such is sunsite.unc.edu). I frequently get 250KB/s from there.
I'm supposed to get 10Mb/s or 1250KB/s via my cable modem. My max so far
has been around 516KB/s or about 4Mb.
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