That's averaging slightly faster than I get, I'm usually hitting 32 - 35 MBps.
But my hardware slows me down, in that my system is the following:
Intel Core i7 Extreme 965 @ 3740.62 MHz - CPU-Z VALIDATOR
The hash checks take a bit longer. Added to that I am also downloading the combined packages for all X64 editions at once to make an AIO x64 .ISO when using UUP DUMP.
Yes, that would affect the DL speed itself.
CPU utilization will also affect how fast it can check integrity of the files being downloaded. And The way it does it, checking each file as it is still downloading the others, to me, seems a bit slower. If I take the copy of all the SHa-1 Hashes that is at the bottom and save them to a single file, 0.sha1, in the folder where the files are downloaded, and then use
Hash Check to verify, it verifies all (usually ~41 files) within seconds (but, of course, that again is a measure of the resources available - the hash check performed by the script in UUP DUMP is, IIRC, relegating a single CPU thread to the hash check, whereas my after download check runs full unthrottled).
My system is one of those anomalies - extremely fast Internet coupled with rather slow hardware (the only reason it is not any slower is that I am using SSDs on this pseudo SATA III connection that my mobo has).
My CPU still gives me fits, at times, when it comes to crunching data, though.
You'd be surprised. It depends upon the actual speeds available. If the speeds are so fast that the CPU cannot keep up, yiou'll see noticeable pauses when swapping from one dl to another using hte same CPU thread - I've seen it on my machine plenty of times.
Somewhat. Other factors are involved to a lesser degree, of course - those are probably the main factors, plus
utilization of resources /
availability of
free resources.
1 minute 38 seconds is extremely fast, and it reflects your hardware. My connection is pretty close to yours, but my hardware is woefully behind yours. Here is my test for actual DL speed:
(I selected the
Feature update to Windows 10, version 1803 (17331.1) arm 64, chose English (US) language and left the editions setting at
All editions, and started the timer immediately after pressing the link to start downloading:
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As you can see, my speeds approached what you had (it went over 35 MBps before dropping after it started losing DL threads), but my total time taken was almost 65 seconds more than yours a direct relation to my older hardware.
If I time using the SHA-1 checksums file using Hash Check, the total time to check all 44 files is much, much faster than the the collective time spent checking the files using the UUP DUMP script:
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I might get SysInternal's Affinity utility, and run the same check again forcing it to use only a single CPU (as best as I can simulate a single thread) and see how long it takes...
Fast broadband and slow hardware already makes a difference. But fast hardware and slow broadband would be the least noticeable difference, because hte computer is literally twiddling its proverbial thumbs waiting on files to complete downloading before being able to verify anything.
My opposite situation has, more than once, had Aria 2 had 2-3 files queued for verification because the DL was so fast it got ahead of the verification.
Pfft - 350+ Mbps is not fast enough? lmfao (neither for me, actually lol)
Then they are misrepresenting the processes collectively as downloading when it is doing more than just downloading. Mine should take no more than 2 minutes - but it routinely takes up to 15 minutes, and while I understand the need to make this happen without taxing the system resources, I wish they would offer an option to allow it to go full tilt if the user so designates so it can finish much faster.
That would be nice. I only have 12 GB, so making a RAM disk is not in my cards - but I imaging I could shave at least 30 seconds off via UUP DUMP running all this in a RAM drive versus off my SSDs....
Actually, I think I might take a stab at it - as seen on my system, since they provide the SHA-1 Hashes, and it takes next to no time when the machine is not otherwise preoccupied with downloading, it would be in my best interest to DL without verification, verify all at once, and re-download any files that had issues....
Hmmm....
RAM is still on several orders of magnitude faster than even conventional SSDs. not so much faster on newer machines, but still fast enough. It should make a noticeable difference on all but the fastest machines these days, particularly on machines that are not making use of NVMe drives.
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