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Implosion

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Downloads=Negative Time?

Okay, I just hate it when this happens:

This is when I first downloaded Kerbal Space Program's Demo.

A few minutes later, this happened:

As you can see, it made more time!
Also, if you look closer, the bar actually made significant progress. It just added more time.
Do you encounter things like this when you download stuff?
P.S. It may only happen on Macs.

ewoke

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

its your internet speed.

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Onjit

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

The amount on the bar is the proportion of the file that is downloaded.

The time is estimated based on your internet speed and how much is left.

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Creature

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

Yes, it happens a lot, specially when pings increase.

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skullz17

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

That's normal. It just means that your speed dropped, so it now thinks that the download will take longer.

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Implosion

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

Aha, so it's estimated. Right... how about the time when I downloaded something and it said 10 min. Rhe Incame back and it said 2 hours and 42 minutes. What the heck? Also, I checked 45 min aft r the initial download.

Different55

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

Same as what everyone else said. If you start out a download going at 1MB/s with a 200MB file, it's going to estimate just over 3 minutes. If after 100MB, your download speed drops to 20kb/s because someone in your family started streaming video, your estimated download time will creep up to 85 minutes, even though you already downloaded half the file. After they finish streaming and your download speed returns to 1MB/s, your download time will shoot down to around 1 minute. The computer can't guess what your download speed will be, so it can only give you an estimate based on what your download speed is at the moment. They're overgrown calculators, not psychics.

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Onjit

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

Somewhat related, just going to leave this here.

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Implosion

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

Ah, I see.

Stubby

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

This happens to me too. It's not just Macs, all computers do it. It's just the internet speed fluctuating. My worst case was when I had a download go from five minutes, up to five hours, and back down to five minutes again. Also, Kerbal Space Program is my favorite game!

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Bimps

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

Yes, it happens a lot, specially when pings increase.

once again you dont know what you're talking about

Zumza

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

Yes, it happens a lot, specially when pings increase.

Yea, sure! Creature tell me this time from where do you get this staff?

Last edited by The Doctor (Nov 30 2014 4:15:36 am)

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Creature

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

Yes, it happens a lot, specially when pings increase.

once again you dont know what you're talking about

I know, you don't.

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ewoke

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

creature you're wrong, ping has not much to do with the download speed.

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Creature

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

creature you're wrong, ping has not much to do with the download speed.

Then your computer is different than mine, when lower my computer's ping is, biggest speed has.

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Different55

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

What computer, OS, or whatever you have doesn't make any difference. Internet traffic isn't affected by any of that. Lower ping means a (slightly) more responsive internet, but download speeds are rarely affected by ping, if ever. Your download would start (slightly) faster, but once the download gets started, ping doesn't affect things much.

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Creature

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

It happened to me.

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Bimps

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

creature i really worry about you

Creature

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

creature i really worry about you

You really worry? How about you pay my bills then?

I know you doubt that ping cause this, but to me it happened, and still happening, I know that your computer must be different, but for me it happened.

Last edited by Creature (Nov 30 2014 4:14:21 pm)

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some woman

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

creature i really worry about you

You really worry? How about you pay my bills then?

You have no bills you are like 16 years old

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Creature

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

creature i really worry about you

You really worry? How about you pay my bills then?

You have no bills you are like 16 years old

My parents have.

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some woman

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

You really worry? How about you pay my bills then?

You have no bills you are like 16 years old

My parents have.

You have none though
you're also asking bimps to pay your parents' bills as if your parents can't actually pay them at the moment

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ewoke

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

just wondering how do you measure your ping creature?
downloading stuff doesnt show me my ping

Last edited by ewoke (Dec 2 2014 2:42:46 pm)

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Creature

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

just wondering how do you measure your ping creature?
downloading stuff doesnt show me my ping

Just test your internet speed and you'll see.

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skullz17

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Re: Downloads=Negative Time?

You might see some correlation at times but that is not the same as causation. It's your download speed that matters, not your ping.

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