On 14 Dec 2010 David J. Ruck wrote: > On 14/12/2010 09:52, David H Wild wrote: >> Netsurf is improving regularly, for which I am very grateful, but there is >> still a "silly" with the display of progress when a file is being >> downloaded. >> >> The time remaining is always calculated as if the current downloading speed >> would remain constant at the present value. This is unlikely to be true as >> speeds tend to vary considerably and so the time remaining figure is not >> really useful at all.
> Please consider that this is not everyone else's experience. Downloads > at consistent speeds are regularly achieved. >> Either the time should be calculated by using the >> time already passed and the fraction of the file downloaded so far, or the >> time should be dropped from the display with only the fraction shown. > Neither of those options are desirable. The remaining time should be > based on the download speed averaged over the past few seconds. I agree with this. Speeds can fluctuate wildly at times, but if you average the transfer rate over the last ten seconds you'll get a much better estimate of the time remaining. If you just use the number of bytes received over the last second the result is too volatile to be useful. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ mailto:[email protected] I don't want a user experience. I just want stuff that works.
