Bandwidth usage maths…
I'm not the king of maths, but, there's a setting in the CC desktop app that allows me to work at 100% internet speed or 75% or less.
Good idea, saturating the bandwidth is not good for anyone most of the time.
But I was working on a couple of big prores files (5-10GB each) and was surprised by the numbers :
my Fiber ISP provides :
Download 900 Mbs /Upload 650 Mbs
Syncing, at 75% was showing a 1MBs upload usage (numbers by Bjango iStat Menus).
I wanted to go fast because large file expected by providers, so I set the setting at 100%.
And suddenly, the upload reaches 65MBs, as expected.
I can understand the need for a throttle on MY side, when I don't need full speed sync, but the numbers are so far from correct, I don't understand it.
65 MBs : 100%, 1 MBs : 75% ?
how is the math done ?
I'm perfectly OK that 75% of 65 MBs is around 48 MBs, I still have a lot of bandwidth to work with :)
Franck Payen
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Gray Jackel
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Your math's are right. The app is stupid. I made feedback request earlier about how percentages are complete bull ways of telling the user what is actually happening.
Furthermore you don't know where that 75% is coming from. Is it the Ethernet chip or the Wi-Fi chip's data speed? Is it from previous uses? How is this calculated??