It's a relatively simple concept but comes with a fuckton of variables that complicate matters.
If you've got a 1mbps connection and you're sending a 1mb email, it shoudl take 1 second to send. If you're sending a 2mb email over a 1mb connection, it'll take two seconds. If you're sending 0.5mb, it'll take half a second.

If you've got two people sending 1mb emails over a 1mbps connection, it'll take 2 seconds because the bandwidth gets split between the two things.

The old electrical analogy of a garden hosepipe could still be used, only the more water you put into it does not come with a subsequent increase in pressure, it just takes longer.
( Kroney, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:58, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Now can you explain to me where babies come from?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 11:01, Reply)

Oh it's ok, I think Himjim has done that below

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 11:02, Reply)