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How long will it take for me to download a full item file? |
Times vary, depending upon the available bandwith and contention, supplied by your ISP, and packet errors, together with how busy the web servers are. The table below shows the approximate times for downloading 1Mb and you can multiply up the times by the number of Mb's in the downloaded file. (The file size is shown at the download item and, for example, 10Mb would take 10 times as long as the 1Mb figure.)
Download speed also affects audio samples played on the pages (see 'Why do my audio samples not play straight away?')
To download 1Mb takes nominally:
- Approximately 2.5 minutes on a 56KB/s modem connection.(dial-up)
- Approximately 15 seconds on a 512KB/s ADSL connection.(broadband)
- Approximately 7.5 seconds on a 1MB/s ADSL connection.(broadband)
- Approximately 3.3 seconds on a 2MB/s ADSL connection.(broadband)
- Approximately 0.5 seconds on an 8MB/s ADSL connection.(broadband)
The above values are only nominal. An informative source on speeds and other cable modem issues is at this link.
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