How Long Are Streams Averaged For?
We average a stream over 8 seconds (default). So a stream running for one second and pulling 800 kbs would be counted as 80 kbs in the first second, 160 kbs in the next second, etc. This separates large Web pages,chat, e-mail, from larger persistent streams. A stream (video) running two minutes or 30 seconds would be treated the same.We do have some customers have taken the average out to 30 seconds you can do whatever you want with it, but I think over time our eight second average has proved to be best for balancing a congested network, in the end something has to give.
