Re: ITP: bandwidthcalc -- file transfer time calculator written in GTK+

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

I guess I have to just ask: how useful is this?

This is really a quite trivial calculation, and many apps/websites
perform it automatically these days anyway.

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:27:01PM +0200, Christoph Goehre wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Owner: Christoph Goehre <christoph.goehre@gmx.de>
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> * Package name    : bandwidthcalc
>   Version         : 0.1
>   Upstream Author : Christoph Goehre <christoph.goehre@gmx.de>
> * URL             : http://www.debiaan.de/~chris/
> * License         : GPL
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : file transfer time calculator written in GTK+
> 
> Given the available bandwidth, bandwidthcalc determines how long it will
> take to transfer a file of a given size. You can specify the available
> bandwidth in kBit/s, kByte/s, MBit/s or MByte/s. The time output is in
> HH:MM:SS
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 4.0
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.1-mactel
> Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
>