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Originally posted by joe cool
When I started a download, it began at 400KB/s.... then it slowly dropped to a 28.7.... actually, pretty quickly, can someone explain why the speed isn't kept constant at a high rate?
What is the actual speed that you get normally ??
If its 400 kb then there is something wrong but if it is something like 25-35kb then its ok.
The initial burst in speed is cause the you pc is estimating the time it will take to complete the download, so initially in the first 5 seconds the file size downloaded is much larger than the time consumed so the speed is shown to be quite large. Eventually it gets back to its normal size.
If you arent using a downloading app and sometimes your download stops in between and you restart your download, the file shows extremely high speeds because a part of that file was already there in you cache.
Plus there is one last point that is what i am speculating upon (this is applicable to low end pc's only) which is that when you click on a file mabbe a small amount a data is already downloaded (before the download window comes up). This used to happen to me when i had a slow machine .... So initially (even tho the file has been downloading for about 5 seconds, according to the downloader the time is about a second. But at your 35kbps speed you have downloaded approx about 150+kb's already so hence the burst in speed
But i highly doubt that you are running a slow machine so forget it
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