Negative download speeds?!

amnesiac

Lifer
Oct 13, 1999
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CoolMon was just showing me that my Download rate (idle connection) was -0.13.

How does that work, exactly?
 

Skyclad1uhm1

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Aug 10, 2001
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It doesn't update every .00000001 seconds, so if it is 100TB 1.000001 second and and .1KB the rest of that second one and onwards, it has to make readjustments to show why it didnt have the promised 200TB already :p
 

wfbberzerker

Lifer
Apr 12, 2001
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Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
It doesn't update every .00000001 seconds, so if it is 100TB 1.000001 second and and .1KB the rest of that second one and onwards, it has to make readjustments to show why it didnt have the promised 200TB already :p

what?
 

udonoogen

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Dec 28, 2001
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Originally posted by: wfbberzerker
Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
It doesn't update every .00000001 seconds, so if it is 100TB 1.000001 second and and .1KB the rest of that second one and onwards, it has to make readjustments to show why it didnt have the promised 200TB already :p

what?

LOL. ditto
 

erikiksaz

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Nov 3, 1999
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Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
It doesn't update every .00000001 seconds, so if it is 100TB 1.000001 second and and .1KB the rest of that second one and onwards, it has to make readjustments to show why it didnt have the promised 200TB already :p

Ahh, i knew it was a bad idea trying to understand what he said...my head hurts now. :eek:
 

hoihtah

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Jan 12, 2001
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someone tell skyclad that this is not the Highly Technical forum. ;)

this is a commoner's and nef's forum... where we speak english.

;)

someone care to translate him in english.
i'd like to know.
 

MazerRackham

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Apr 4, 2002
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Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
It doesn't update every .00000001 seconds, so if it is 100TB 1.000001 second and and .1KB the rest of that second one and onwards, it has to make readjustments to show why it didnt have the promised 200TB already :p

Hahah LOL :)
 

Entity

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Oct 11, 1999
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Originally posted by: hoihtah
someone tell skyclad that this is not the Highly Technical forum. ;)

this is a commoner's and nef's forum... where we speak english.

;)

someone care to translate him in english.
i'd like to know.

Says the man whose sig is his name in binary. :D

Rob
 

hoihtah

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Jan 12, 2001
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Originally posted by: Entity
Originally posted by: hoihtah
someone tell skyclad that this is not the Highly Technical forum. ;)

this is a commoner's and nef's forum... where we speak english.

;)

someone care to translate him in english.
i'd like to know.

Says the man whose sig is his name in binary. :D

Rob

hey... the way i see it, binary is even more elementary than english.

all you need is 0's and 1's. :) it just doesn't get much simpler than that! ;)