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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 9th May 2006 23:00
We already had a thread about dial-up going fast, well this download time certianly beats it.



228 megs downloaded in about a minute at 5megs a second (of course it went down, but still it was fast) Certianly beats my usual 100-300 kbps

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Mikey P
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Posted: 9th May 2006 23:08
Ever started downloading that before? It could be resuming it, but messing up it's calculations :/

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Posted: 9th May 2006 23:30
Nope first time downloading.

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Posted: 10th May 2006 01:24
Obviously a calculation error cause thats 10x faster than dial-up is capable of


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Posted: 10th May 2006 03:19
thats sometimes faster then my fiber optic internet.... sometimes......

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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 10th May 2006 03:33
Notice the B instead of b in the speed. Thats appx 693 times faster than 56kb can do. Around 200 times faster than even with the latest compression transfers that I know of.

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Posted: 10th May 2006 08:18
I "had" the same speeds with windows update when resuming update.

Does anyone have the knowledge of how FF calculates the speeds. I tried looking the sourcecode, but It was a bit too complicated (about 30 000 files each files uses few interfaces). I dont know if Im even looking the right file but:
nslDownload is:


There is this
/**
* The percentage of transfer completed;
*/
readonly attribute PRInt32 percentComplete;
and this
/**
* Optional; transfering information is passed to this listener and used to
* update client UI.
*/
attribute nsIWebProgressListener listener;

And the nsIWebProgressListener:


and there is this:
void onStateChange(in nsIWebProgress aWebProgress,
in nsIRequest aRequest,
in unsigned long aStateFlags,
in nsresult aStatus);

nsl WebProgess

adds the listener:
void addProgressListener(in nsIWebProgressListener listener,
in unsigned long aNotifyMask);

but now Im lost, where should I look to figure out how it calculates it?
Im not good with C/C++ so could someone with skills explain the method of calculation.

Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 10th May 2006 10:51
Somebody opened the gate!!!

indi
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Posted: 10th May 2006 12:43 Edited at: 10th May 2006 12:43
perhaps its a case of fasterfox / squid , close to source network connection and a bandwidth spike because that part of the zip is one large file where it doesnt have to retransmitt a signal to say that component id ready, and its ready for the next bit.


reading more its probably squid on your isps end.


btw its so worth installing squid on your network if you have 2 or more comps.

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 10th May 2006 14:18
where would you insall it? I have a linux server at home which is currently acting as a DNS cache and a DHCP server. I have a linksys router which is handling DNS which the server isn't caching...

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Posted: 10th May 2006 14:26
this might help mate
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=installing+squid&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 10th May 2006 14:49 Edited at: 10th May 2006 18:38
Quote: "Obviously a calculation error cause thats 10x faster than dial-up is capable of"


It's using broadband and if it literally download 200megs in that small time then it can't be a miscalculation, as said its most likely fasterfox which I do have installed.

[edit]
Whilst looking at Delphi related threads I found this quote which sort of explains the speed;
Quote: "The Borland servers are very fast so it shouldn't take very long on a fast connection."

As it was a download from the Borland server it makes sense

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Posted: 10th May 2006 19:38
Sorry but I can't help but smile that you've got a Safari skin on Firefox Still no wonder really, the Firefox UI sucks (from a design point of view only, it works great).

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Posted: 10th May 2006 19:41
Quote: "Sorry but I can't help but smile that you've got a Safari skin on Firefox Still no wonder really, the Firefox UI sucks (from a design point of view only, it works great)."


Thats because the Safari skin beats all of the other Firefox ones

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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 11th May 2006 00:35
Quote: "Thats because the Safari skin beats all of the other Firefox ones"

It's absolutely horrible.

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Posted: 11th May 2006 00:44
Quote: "It's absolutely horrible."


Meh, so am I, so it goes perfect with me

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Posted: 11th May 2006 01:56
Quote: "It's using broadband "


How can it be Broadband and Dial up?

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Posted: 11th May 2006 18:01
Above when I said we already had a thread on dial up being fast, I meant this one is one on broadband, I thought the download speed would have been obvious that I was talking about broadband, as a 56k dial up cannot go faster than 56k, same for 8meg broadband.

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