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Subject: Re: Download limits are a nanny metality
Author: Christopher
Date: 11/14/2012 04:41
 
I wonder how you do that? Or is that blowing smoke up my a***?
I did eventually figure out how to up the limit to 999,999 b/s.

Why the limit of that number? Because the Max Transfer rate box is limited to
6 digits and the number reflects bits/second. I tried adding another 9 but the
box refused to take it.

Leaving the Max Transfer Rate box blank resulted in a speed today of 25KiB/s,
half of what it was a week or so ago. I am at a different location that has a
high speed internet so this is not to do with network speed, as when I input
the 6 9s the speed jumped to nearly 1MBit. Again, I ask why the limit of
sub-megabit downloads (and yes, 1MiB is not the same as 1MB [megabyte] as
there are 8 bits to a byte, so 1MBit is 8 times slower than 1MB)? 

You state that you achieved 25mbits. I am assuming that that is the same as
25MBits so your speed is really 3.125MB/s (much slower than my connection, by
the way). Putting the above aside, that would require the ability to put in 7
digits which is impossible. So you are blowing smoke up my a***.

I would like to make an important point. Drop down menus are usually not able
to have arbitrary figures put into them which is what was confusing. The drop
down menu usually has a universal purpose in ALL coding: limiting you to the
choices in the menu itself. I have NEVER come across a drop down menu that has
the first option as blank which is actually allowing you to input any number
you like. You also tend to have an "Apply" button which this menu option does
not have. One clicks OK and the input figure in this menu box is immediately
working. So even though this is pretty clever coding, it is not the way drop
down menus in general work which is why I 'didn't get it'. 

Now Xavier, are you trying to be clever and show off, or do you actually want
people to be able to easily use your program? I would change this menu option
to an input box and do away with the drop down menu. I would also expand the
number of digits that can be put into it. Limiting it to 6 is not a good thing
with speeds nowadays that can go up to 8 digits. In the future 10 digit speeds
will be the norm.
 
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