Behaviour of system tray bandwidth indicator

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/17/14 21:34, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>> I just dragged a 4GB file in Dolphin to my NFS Mounted NAS.  A little circle popped into the systray area and clicking on it brings up a "Copying" box with information about how much has been copied and what the current transfer rate is.  This goes along for a few minutes and then finally a popup comes from dolphin indicating the transfer is complete.
> That's what I'm talking about. If the circle widget has a name I don't
> know it. My point is that the transfer rate is showing (say)
> 1.6GiB/sec (i.e. gigabytes) which is ridiculous. And of course the
> transfer finishes immediately, which of course it would at that speed.
> It's really not very helpful.

OK.  I'm not seeing that.  I'm seeing a reasonable transfer rate and it doesn't show "completed" until it actually is and the popup from Dolphin shows up.  Also have a 1000Mbps LAN.
> I also have a much slower machine (an Asus EEE) connected by WiFi, and
> the indicator there is more aligned with reality, which is what makes
> me think it's an artifice of buffering.

Could be.  Too bad I'm unable to reproduce it. 


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