Q: Sometimes BMeter shows download time as “instant”?

A: PalmOS uses buffering inside of TCP/IP stack. The size of this buffer is unknown and there is no way to control it. When there is a data in the buffer, an operation of reading data from netowrk returns instantly, taking literaly no time. In such situation we show “instant” instead of download rate, which could not be calculated if download time is zero.

While indivdual measurements could show “instant” because of this, average download rate of multiple iteration will be accurate.

If you see “instant” message, we recommend to increase measurement block size and use multiple iterations.