No ETA with 8KB/s bandwidth

[lightonflux]

I have to use my phone to have internet from time to time. And sometimes the connections is lightning fast, more precisely ~8000B/s.

And yt-dl works fine, execpt that there is no ETA, for some reason.

 [download]  22.0% of 292.42MiB at  7.12KiB/s ETA --:-- 

I don't see a reason why yt-dl does not have an ETA, because it knows how big the file is and how fast the download is. So math should no be the problem.

The tool trickle (for linux) is nice to test it, if you are in the sad situation and have VDSL. :)

[phihag]

Currently, we're cutting off ETA display if it is more than 99 minutes. I agree that we should increase that to, say, 99 hours (which is more than 4 days).

[lightonflux]

Why limit at all? I don't see a reason for it.

[phihag]

Because an output like ETA: 3 millenia (or ETA: 26282953 hours) is totally useless. The ETA is only an estimation, and if the value is that high, it's way more likely your connection has been lost than that the actual ETA is anywhere in that range.

[lightonflux]

Thanks for the explanation.