> > > On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > When apt-get calculates its ETA when downloading something, if it is > > downloading from multiple servers, it doesn't do it per server: > > Yes, but that is probably best. Think about a modem where the bandwidth is > limited by the incoming pipe, so bandwidth per source is quite wrong, only > on broadband does it make any difference, and even then not much.
Well, I was doing a full install, and I was sucking at 400k/sec from mirror.aarnet.edu.au, and about 4k/sec from spidermonkey.helixgnome.com. The ETA was 4 minutes. The actual time it took from that "4 minutes ETA" was about 2.5 hours. Think about it. But anyway, wishlist. > It is an estimate, accept that it always wrong for some of the time.
