On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 08:27 +0530, Raj Mathur wrote: > You seem to be getting a burst because modern browsers (like Firefox) > start the download in the background as soon as you click on the link. > So while you're answering questions in the pop-up dialogue boxes about > open/download and where to save the file, the download has already > started. When the download manager window opens it seems like you're > getting more bps, but actually the speed is just the download manager > trying to rationalise the portion that has come in before it opened.
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 04:27 +0530, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > Not just hotwire(packetshaper), but every bandwidth management solution > provides burst speeds. The idea is that most of the network traffic > comprises of small sized data. In a typical website download, the html file > is a few kb, images are (ideally) a few kbs each. Thus providing burst > speed support, these small downloads are snappy giving a better feedback to > users. Sustained downloads on teh other hand are quickly brought down to > allocated speeds. Hi all, Raj, you seem to be quite right. I also figured out the same after a while. But arn't you and Sandip conflicting the things? According to Sandip, the initial burst is there & according to the firefox theory, the burst is nothing, but a collection of data which i see due to my "human-lag"... & also, Sandip, when i tried the same download by using "curl", i found no burst. Now where did it go? I started with almost constant 7.5kbps. Is there any way for these packetshapers to detect that my download is a big thing & so they start off with no initial burst? Even if that is true, i tried downloading just 100kb (using curl) & still got 7.5kbps. In all, i find both of your findings very true, but somehow conflicting. All i want is to utilize this initial burst & if not able to sustain it, then atleast make it happen as frequently as i can. Any ideas how can i try that... (i tried with curl...) regards, makuchaku --- http://makuchaku.blogspot.com --- Let him choose out of my files, his projects to accomplish. -- Shakespeare, "Coriolanus" _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
