On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Daniel Stone wrote: > 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.
Sure, but 4 mins into that 2.5h the ETA switched to be 2.5h. The ETA is instantaneous, not averaging, specifically because of this effect. Jason
