Why are the graphs so beautifully regular? I might have expected some randomness

[OldGrantonian]

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I’m still experimenting with GW. It’s almost as interesting as Tetris or Sokoban.

I’m deliberately streaming YouTube to give me a continuous download. I’m trying to understand the graph results.

If I select “5 minutes” with maximum aperture (5 mins), the graph is empty.

If I select “3 hours”, with an aperture of about 30 minutes, I see one spike at about 12:00 and one spike at about 12:30. Why is there nothing in between? YouTube is continuous.

If I select 24 hours, with minimum aperture (about 1 hour), I see the same two spikes as for the “3 hour” setting.

In all cases, the spikes have the same amplitude. That seems weird to me. I would have expected some kind of irregular saw-tooth waveform.
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[Remah]

Perhaps you should read this topic about the graphs to see what others, including myself, have learnt.

GlassWire Graph is Meaningless

I’ve used GlassWire a few times over the past few years but always uninstalled it because I couldn’t make sense of the graph. Something seemed not-quite-right about it. I looked into this further and have realized that the way data is presented on the graph appears to be meaningless. First I’d like to show a case where the graph is almost correct. In the current version when I select the “5 Minutes” interval the top-left summary value changes to a “megabytes per second” reading. I can see that …

That topic was partly inspired by this GlassWire blog about the graphs:

Understanding GlassWire’s graph and scaling – how much data are you using on...

[Ken_GlassWire]

@OldGrantonian

That’s interesting about Youtube. Some of our team used to work in video streaming, and with video streaming and there isn’t much movement the data required should be much lower.