TotalSeconds instead. Ticks ; watch. T-moty T-moty 2, 22 22 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. How would I best correct that? I updated the code, just use TotalSeconds instead. Whilst this has got a few upticks and is a reasonable solution, the problems with this are that the transfer speed increases over the first few seconds up to the max speed.
The download file is also very small 1. A "better" way of doing a speed test would be to download a much much larger file 1Gb and then start the stopwatch after 5 seconds, then wait 10 seconds before stopping it and seeing how much extra data has been downloaded.
Use a known file size and trap how long it takes to download. Matt Campbell Matt Campbell 2 2 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Vineet Menon Vineet Menon 2 2 gold badges 9 9 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges. Omar Abid Omar Abid 15k 25 25 gold badges 75 75 silver badges bronze badges. Publication : Understanding broadband speed measurements This may help someone looking to implement a speed test with the supporting theory.
The general algorithm can be seen here: Ookla Algorithm. Dane Balia Dane Balia 4, 5 5 gold badges 27 27 silver badges 50 50 bronze badges. Add now, mBytesUsed ; if internetUsage.
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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.
But, to determine the upload and download speeds of your connection, you can use any third-party speed test applications that can be accessed online through your browser. Now that we know how to determine the transfer speed for our uploads and downloads, we can now calculate a file's download time or duration.
Calculating download time is as simple as dividing the size of the file you wish to transfer by the transfer speed of the network that the transfer will go through. However, we have to be careful with the units we use, since this could be quite confusing. Let us consider the example above for our sample computation. To calculate how long to download the MB video over a 5 Mbps internet download speed, we can use the equation below:.
But first, let us convert the units of the file size in terms of megabits, which is equivalent to 1 million bits. To do so, we'll be using the conversion table above under the SI system. With that said, we now have this computation:. As shown above, the MB video file will finish downloading in less than 11 minutes over a stable 5 Mbps connection. However, if somebody else in the house uses the internet while you're downloading this video file, it could take much longer to complete the download because of congestion in the data transfer.
Aside from calculating the download time of a file from the internet, you can also use this calculator to determine the transfer duration from, let's say, a computer to an external storage device like a USB flash drive.
However, you must first know the transfer rate of your connection to calculate the transfer duration. You can also use this download time calculator to determine your download speed.
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