| Data remaining | |
|---|---|
| Running time | |
| Time remaining | |
| Estimated completion time | |
| Current speed | |
| Average speed | |
| Standard deviation | |
| Sequential correlation | |
| Instant speed | |
Time Remaining shows an upper and lower bound for completion time. It treats the download speed as a sequentially correlated gaussian variable. Lower and upper bound are set at 1 stddev from the mean. Numbers are rounded to 5s above 10 to stabilize the display.
Current Speed is meant to improve upon typical speed measures. These tend to use exponential-filtered averages (e.g. new = old + (current - old) * .2), which take very long to settle after a perfect flat stair-step and give the wrong impression. Instead this uses a cosine-smoothed running average, of a short outlier-rejected mean—similar to a median filter—which zones in on flat sections and settles quickly to zero.
Average Speed is a normal 50-second average, meant to show effective throughput. It's the mean of all the samples in this window.
In real use, only a few of these quantities would be displayed. Rather than show the full speed graph, only the smoothed version could be shown in sparkline form.