b12128e created the issue

Hi,

I have to continue downloads quite often and the download speed is not correct initially. I assume the algorithm keeps a list of the amount downloaded in the previous N timesteps. Each timestep gives a speed sample with the number of bytes downloaded divided by the time delta. The total speed is then averaged over all of these timesteps.

I believe the error is that in the initial time step the existing file size is not subtracted. Therefore you have a very high outlier in the list of speed samples, which slowly converges to the actual speed when new samples arrive. The error is gone once the buffer is full and the initial outlier is removed.

Solutions:

Quick Workaround: Instead of computing the mean, compute the median, which is not sensitive to a single outlier.
Bugfix: Subtract the filesize from the amount downloaded for the first timestep.