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How many minutes should it take to transmit 5GB over a USB2.0 (assume 500 Mbps) bandwidth connection? How would I figure this out??? When I did the math I came up with 1.3 minutes which Im pretty sure is incorrect. Here is what I did:
5*8000 = 500*60*x
40000=30000x
X = 1.3 Minutes
lkajf
Posted 2016-01-12T23:40:47.887
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It should come out to ~1 minute and 21 seconds (+- 1 second).
to do this:
500 / 8 //calculate the MBps. 8Mbps to a MBps.
= 62.5
5 * 1024 //calculate what 5GB is in MB
= 5120
5120 / 62.5 //calculate the final seconds amount
= 81.92
td512
Posted 2016-01-12T23:40:47.887
Reputation: 4 778
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Using the Bandwidth Calculator:
90,071,992.5 ns nanoseconds
87,960.9 ms milliseconds
85.9 s seconds (default)
1.4 m minutes
DavidPostill
Posted 2016-01-12T23:40:47.887
Reputation: 118 938
Hmm. I get 85.9s from http://www.dslreports.com/calculator?sz=5GB&time=&c2=Calc&speed=500Mbps
– DavidPostill – 2016-01-12T23:55:00.243@DavidPostill I did this on paper. my answer could be a little out. just stating what I did – td512 – 2016-01-12T23:56:45.650
I guessed you worked it out by hand. I'm trying to work out which one is correct ;) – DavidPostill – 2016-01-12T23:57:32.383
I too get 81.92s ! – RogUE – 2016-01-13T00:06:16.557
@RogUE thank god I'm not the only one to get the same calculation – td512 – 2016-01-13T00:09:21.727
500 Mbps = 59.6 MBps according to dslreports. There is the discrepancy. – DavidPostill – 2016-01-13T00:10:40.940
@DavidPostill I thought 1 MB = 8 Mb... they must've done something wrong – td512 – 2016-01-13T00:12:01.343
Isn't 8Mbit=1Mbyte, @DavidPostill that means 1MByte=8.3892Mbit
– RogUE – 2016-01-13T11:55:36.380