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   Daniel70 to R.Wieser   
   Re: How do "they" Speed-test Internet Li   
   09 Sep 25 20:54:49   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: daniel47@somewhere.someplaceelse   
      
   On 9/09/2025 1:20 am, R.Wieser wrote:   
   > Daniel,   
   >   
   >>>> But how does the distant end know when I have received the entire file   
   >>>> (i.e. Download end time)??   
   >   
   > As said, the sending-side marks the last to-be-send data-block as being ...   
   > well, the last block.  :-)   
   >   
   >>>> Similarly, how does the distant end know when my computer started the   
   >>>> Upload (Upload start time)??   
   >   
   > By receiving the first block of data ?   
   >   
   > Mind you, files do *not* get send as a single block, but as a number of   
   > smaller blocks.   
   >   
   > Regards,   
   > Rudy Wieser   
   >   
   >   
   Yes, understood, Rudy, don't start sending second Block until reception   
   of first block acknowledged.   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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