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Originally Posted by afv011
900MB / 11.5 Mb/s = 626 seconds, or 10.5 minutes at full throttle (which you never get). I can't see how you could get 900MB in 4 minutes if that's indeed your speed - could it just be streaming?
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I hate it when amateurs try to do network engineering.
Please take into account that...
(a) my connection varies a lot depending on activity in my cable area, so my speeds vary as much as 5 Mbps to 25 Mbps...
(b) the speed test I reported was for a *DATA* connection tested using
www.speedtest.net, but my router...
(c) a Netgear WNDR3700 has as one of it's best features an industry leading video QOS capability that optimizes downloads and streaming of videos.
So, from the above, you'll see that I don't really know what the effective video QOS download speed was when I downloaded the movie "Contact" (except that it was obviously somewhere around 900 MB/4 minutes - duh!). But to be obliging to the nice lady who asked, I did a quick *data* speed test that, for all but the most skeptical and critical of readers, would give you a ballpark idea what kind of connection I have.
In the end, was all that really necessary? Or is saying, "Oh, about 10 Mbps" good enough for a discussion between friends?
To directly answer your question...no, I was not streaming the video...I downloaded it to the Kindle so that it was clearly marked as having been downloaded and was resident on the device.