From: "Geo" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:nscec2pit6kqd4tv8i8ggin89sf1mteeir{at}4ax.com...

> Now you're being a bit provocative there! Certainly when using remote
> desktop on a slow connection, the GUI is annoying, but it does a pretty
> fair job with its estimates most of the time. You just have to realise
> that the GUI does not always mean what it says...

Provocative? How else would you have asked the question? It's obvious to me
at least that if the transfer rate is not constant there is no way to
provide an accurate estimate.

There appear to be two different time estimation routines, one changes
constantly like it's just taking a 1 second current download speed and
looking at how much more data needs to go then calculates the remaining
time based on that (ignoring the average download speed for the whole
transaction)

The second routine does it a different way where the remaining time never
goes up so if the transfer speed slows down it just sticks at it's current
estimate until the calculation comes up with a time that's less.

I'm just trying wondering if these two routines are a way to tell which of
the two functions Rich just mentioned are being used.

Geo.

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