why is the download manager weirdly erratic at times?

[Colin Charles]

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 19:37, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>    occasionally (possibly only at times of high network traffic), the 
> download manager is strangely erratic in that the amount of data 
> listed as being transferred bounces all over the place.

What download manager? From your web broswer, wget, curl?

Speeds going up and down are normal with networks (which by themselves,
are complicated beasts)
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