Quick Question

Colbaker · 6 Jul 2011 at 17:23

Hi all,

Apparently the national average UPLOAD speed is 296Kbps, How long would it take to upload 1Gb of data at that speed? and how would you work it out.

Sorry if i am being stupid

KIA · 6 Jul 2011 at 17:25

3.5 hours.

Colbaker · 6 Jul 2011 at 18:07

fluff said:
3.5 hours.

Thanks, How did you come up with this number?

Tealc · 6 Jul 2011 at 18:47

3.5 hours is not right, you'd need an upload speed of 80KB/s to achieve that.

296kbps gives around 25-30 Kilobytes/second. 1 Gigabyte is about 1,050,000 Kilobytes.

At 25KB/s it will take you 40 seconds to upload 1MB. So 1000MB will take you 40,000 seconds which is 667 minutes which is 11.16 hours.

At 30KB/s it will take you 33 seconds to upload 1MB. 1000MB = 33,000s = 550 mins = 9.2 hours.

KIA · 6 Jul 2011 at 20:08

Google calc failed me. D: