Igor, You are always a numbers geek, aren't you? ;-) I misspoke, was speaking off the top of my head... Checked my diagnostics log: the actual download time was 1 hour, 43 minutes.
The file was 2.67 Gbytes in size. My nominal service is 6Mbits per second download, the current measured download speed is 5.62 Mbits per second, which translates to 2023 Mbytes per hour, or a download time at current download speed of 1.31 hours. Accommodating download measured speed fluctuations, that's pretty close. My service speed was maxed by the service' aDSL switch to 6Mbit/sec when I set it up. I could upgrade to nominal 12Mbit/sec now, since they upgraded the switch, which should see that DL time cut in half, approximately, presuming the measured speed runs as close percentage-wise to the nominal as it does now. That puts it into the ballpark of your estimate. This is the fastest local service in the area for my condo, the measured rates on home cable I've seen top out at 8 to 10 Mbits/sec. There's nothing I can do about that without buying in a different area. ;-) Needless to say, a 5-6 Gbyte file is still a very large data transfer and takes quite a bit of time on a reliable home internet connection to complete. If there are any errors and retries in transmission, it will take longer. Apple Retail Stores have usually have reliable connections much faster than home internet services. At the office, I have connection speeds (wired ethernet) that are many times faster than what I can get at home. The Mavericks installer takes about six minutes to download there, again off the top of my head. G On Dec 19, 2013, at 8:09 PM, Igor Roshchin <[email protected]> wrote: > You either have a slow internet service or your service is very slow. > :-) > With a 10-15 Mbit/s home cable (which is standard here, unless > you get the absolute minimum, which is 1 Mbit/s which they no longer > offer in some service areas), 4 GB would take some > 35-55 minutes to download. And I am not even talking about 50 or 100 > Mbit/s that Suddenlink offers with docsis 3.0 modems. > > The speed you are describing (2.75 GB over 3 hours) corresponds to > 0.25 MB/s which is equivalent to about 2 Mbit/s. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
