Re: Bug#80937: apt-get doesn't calculate ETA per-server

[Daniel Stone <daniel@kabuki.eyep.net>]

> On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 
> > > Sure, but 4 mins into that 2.5h the ETA switched to be 2.5h. The ETA is
> > > instantaneous, not averaging, specifically because of this effect.
> > 
> > sure, but I didn't realise how slow spidermonkey was and made arrangements
> > to be picked up in 15 minutes. suckage.
> > 
> > if it was multi-server, it would've said (2.5h + 4min) at the time.
> 
> But, on slow pipes, the different server speeds could bounce back and forth.

any idea of the number of people on {cable|xdsl|other broadband} these days?