> > 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.
sure, but I didn't realise how slow spidermonkey was and made arrangements to be picked up in 15 minutes. suckage. if it was multi-server, it would've said (2.5h + 4min) at the time.
