Calculator Planner More Info About. Calculate the estimated time to download or transfer a file by entering the file size and your download speed bandwidth below. Actual download speeds will depend on the quality of your internet and network connection, performance of and available bandwidth to the server hosting the file, bandwidth contention, processing overheads, and other factors.
For example YouTube is a video streaming service. Such streaming services even prevent the storage and use of the downloaded data. Please note that downloading is not the same as data transfer. The term "data transfer" is used to denote moving or copying data between storage devices. Receiving data from the Internet is downloading. The duration of the download is known as download time. Download time is the time needed to transfer a file from the Internet to a local computer, phone, tablet or other Internet-connected device.
The download time is determined by the connection speed between the two devices and the size of the transferred file. The connection speed is determined by the hardware capabilities of the two devices and also the ISP Internet Service Provider that they use.
A faster connection speed will result a faster download and shorter download time. Of course, a smaller file will require shorted download time too. Download speed is the amount of data that is transferred per second between two Internet-connected devices. It may be expressed in various units which are multiples of a BIT - the smallest unit in computers.
Those are bits, Kilobits, Megabits, Gigabits and so on. 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. 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.
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