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neutrino23

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This is a tongue-in-cheek question for a Saturday afternoon.

I regularly download the PDF of our newspaper with Safari. The file is about 50 to 100 MB. It often seems to be downloading slowly (~50 to 100kB per second) at the start. Then I open Activity Monitor and watch the network speed and the download rate will climb up to several megabytes per second. I know there can't be a connection, but it sure seems that way. Maybe the opposite of a watched pot never boils?
 

Gregg2

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Note the download rate and close Activity Monitor. Summon the will power to leave the computer to its own devices for 15 minutes (or more). When you come back to it, open Activity Monitor again. Compare.
 

neutrino23

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Will power. LOL.

Actually, my guess is that during a download the sender and receiver continually negotiate the data rate so that the rate increases during the download, if the bandwidth is there.
 
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