Monday, July 11, 2011

Inaccurate IE9 File Download Time Estimates

So I've recently started using IE9.  I'm not thrilled with it but I'm not overly dissatisfied with it either.  I use Chrome on a regular basis, I only use IE9 for specific things.

What I found today: IE9 doesn't calculate time estimates correctly.  Not even close!  Here I'm downloading 3 files, 2/3 have horribly inaccurate download time estimates.  Unless I'm doing my math incorrectly, 1.81 GB transferring at 137MB/s is about 13 minutes.  This says 12 seconds!  And it's not even changing even thought he percent completed is climbing!  Come on Microsoft.  This is basic functionality here.




I saw this the other day on a file which supposedly was going to take me 22 hours to complete.  I did the time estimate and it was 8 minutes.  Guess what?  It finished in about 8 minutes.  Please just fix this.

edit #1 I have to add two other things...

1) When you hit "pause" and then "resume" one would think the file download would be paused at x% completed and then resumed at x%.  No.  In my experience (twice already) when you hit "pause" it pauses the download alright, but then when you hit "resume" it just restarts the download over again...from 0%.  WTF???

2) I had some error occur saying that the download was interrupted.  There was a "resume" option.  I clicked it.  It's been saying "resuming..." for over 10 minutes now and there's NO option to cancel and start over again.  I don't even know what to do besides just closing IE and restarting it which I'm not about to do until my other downloads are completed.

I'd say this first post was a huge success.  3 major issues in one post from the same product on the SAME screen!

I'm done here.

edit #2 This ended very poorly.  I ended up canceling the downloads and closing IE9.  The download manager completely froze.  I eventually had to just flat out kill the iexplorer.exe processes.  I'm installing Chrome on the production server.  Fuck this and fuck IE.

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