I get annoyed when I'm chatting with friends, waiting to play some game
we decided to download, and it's ONLY downloading at 300 megabits per
second! :P 

In this scenario, which mechanism controls the download speed? I hear many users complain that their gigabit internet connection is not maxing out and the update is taking forever. I would never expect a gigabit internet connection to be saturated during a game update, but I'm curious how the throttling works.

Thanks.

 

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 1:22 PM Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> wrote:
Once upon a time, Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com> said:
> > This just follows the same rules as networks have always seemed to; If
> you build it, they will come, and you'll have to build more. :)
>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand

Yep, just like your disk space requirements will always grow to 110% of
available space.

I get annoyed when I'm chatting with friends, waiting to play some game
we decided to download, and it's ONLY downloading at 300 megabits per
second! :P
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Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>