To convert Kilobits to Megabits you have to divide them by To convert the Megabits to Gigabits you have to divide them to again and so on. The download speed is determined by your service provider and the hardware limits of the connection. For example the highest download speed of a Base-T connection is Megabits.
Of course that speed is the maximum that can be reached on such hardware and may be slower based on the Internet plan that you have signed for. You can check your download and upload speeds at SpeedTest. The download and upload speed are usually different. In most cases the upload speed is much slower than the download speed.
If the two are equal we call such connection symmetric. If the connection is not "shaped" limited by an ISP it is symmetric by default. Please note that the above test is not always correct. IS providers usually detect where your computer connects and provide higher speeds for tests if they detect that you are trying to test your connection speed.
Use the Download Time Calculator above to enter your file size and calculate the time need for the transfer. Multiple Internet connection speeds are listed and you can see the ones that are close to yours.
To calculate download time you have to divide the file size by the connection speed. The more difficult part is that you have to convert the speed and time units to the desired ones.
All the download speeds are in bits per second e. Mbps is Megabits per second, Gbps is Gigabits per second. In the above calculation those seconds are converted to days, hours, minutes and seconds for easier reading. To convert the seconds to minutes you have to divide them by 60 seconds in a minute and the whole part will be minutes and the fractional part that is left is the seconds.
Check also the free online File Size calculator and converter. File Size:. Download this freeware tool and check the distribution of your disk space. Free Duplicate File Finder. Low on disk space? This download time calculator will help you determine the time it will take to download a file at a given internet bandwidth. An internet bandwidth provides information about a network's upload and download speed , and the faster the internet download speed is, the faster we obtain the file or data we need.
Keep on reading to learn how long to download, let's say, your favorite video clip. Computer file sizes vary depending on the amount of data or information a computer file stores. When storing data, computers use what is called bits , an abbreviation of "binary digits. Data stored in bits are represented by 1's and 0's and can be combined with other bits to form useful files like texts, images, audio, or videos. Storing more bits together means that more information is present in the file.
Grouping 8 bits together forms what is called a byte. A single symbol or letter in a text file takes up approximately 1 byte of computer storage. Like any other unit of measurement, when we talk about large amounts of something, we can use prefixes to quickly show the scale we are dealing with.
Trust us, this is much better than using a huge number and the same unit of measurement. In file sizes, we also use a set of prefixes to express large amounts of data, and you can see these prefixes in the table below. As shown in the chart above, we can express a thousand bytes as one kilobyte, kilobytes as one megabyte, and so on, just like in SI units.
However, for a very long time, this conversion does not hold. Since data measurement follows the binary system, which uses powers of 2, a kilobyte used to be equivalent to 2 10 bytes or 1, bytes. On the other hand, a megabyte is equal to 1, kilobytes, and so on.
Nowadays, we commonly use 1, or the SI conversion instead of 1, binary conversion to convert these units. However, new prefixes have been developed for binary conversion in case we need to use them.
These prefixes are shown in the table below. You can also learn more about this in the " What is the difference between Mb and Mib " section of our video file size calculator.
Files cannot always be in just one computer or machine. When we take a picture using a digital camera, we need to have a way to transfer the picture file to a computer and then to a printer to end up with the image printed on a piece of paper. With that said, several ways have been developed for us to be able to transfer digital files from one device to another. The simplest way to transfer a file is through a data cable specifically made to transmit data. Nowadays, we can also transfer data wirelessly through radio frequencies like Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.
We can now also upload or transfer data to the internet so that other people can access it. The internet is a series of computer networks running all across the world.
With the internet, we can now easily send any file to our loved ones, even if they are a thousand miles away from us, as long as they also have access to the internet. All we need to do is upload our file to the internet. Then, to access our file, people have to download it to their devices. Uploading and downloading data can take a while, depending on the file's size and transfer rate. Think of it like pouring water into a beaker. Pouring water from one beaker to another will only take a little amount of time.
However, if we place a funnel on one beaker, the amount of water flow will decrease due to the narrow part of the funnel. The flow rate of the water in this analogy is similar to the transfer rate of a file. We can compare a funnel's narrow tube part to what is called the internet's bandwidth.
The larger the bandwidth is, the more data that can be transmitted at a time. Therefore, a file can be transferred much faster if the internet connection has a larger bandwidth. Bandwidth is also, in a way, an internet connection's maximum capacity, and we can express it in units of bits per second. Internet bandwidth can also represent the maximum speed an internet connection can have. However, when moving a file from one computer to another, the maximum transfer speed will depend on the slowest bandwidth that the data has to go through - which can be anywhere in the route.
To better understand this, let us consider an example. Let's say that your friend wants to send you his new MB megabytes video creation over his 10 Mbps megabits per second internet connection.
On the other hand, you will be receiving the video file over your 5 Mbps home internet connection. For this example, let us assume that the upload and download speeds for both connections can use their entire bandwidths. Since the file will also be coming through the much lower 5 Mbps connection, this will be the maximum transfer speed that we can get for this data transfer.
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