Chart of estimated download times?

[Winston]

Anyone know of a good webmaster-type resource that gives you a chart of
estimated file download times for large files (e.g., videos), broken
down by connection speeds? I want to post some fairly huge QuickTime
videos on a web page, along with a chart that lets people know how long
it will take to download them with their connection.

Thanks in advance.

 

[kayodeok]

Anyone know of a good webmaster-type resource that gives you a
chart of estimated file download times for large files (e.g.,
videos), broken down by connection speeds? I want to post some
fairly huge QuickTime videos on a web page, along with a chart
that lets people know how long it will take to download them
with their connection.

Did you try google?
http://www.google.com/search?q=~chart+download+times

Second one on the list:

How long will it take to download that file?
http://www.missico.com/personal/support/download_times.htm

....on closer inspection, I am not sure it is accurate; a 10mb video
downloads in 40 mins on a 56kb modem connected at 48kbps
(1 megabyte downloads in 4mins - on average)

 

[Augustus]

Did you try google?
http://www.google.com/search?q=~chart+download+times

Second one on the list:

How long will it take to download that file?
http://www.missico.com/personal/support/download_times.htm

...on closer inspection, I am not sure it is accurate; a 10mb video
downloads in 40 mins on a 56kb modem connected at 48kbps
(1 megabyte downloads in 4mins - on average)

Its pretty much right on... a 56k modem can download about 18MB an hour...
so 10MB is about 35 minutes (and thats assuming things are pretty much close
to optimal)

 

[Winston]

Yes, thanks, I did find a few through Google - also
http://www.macromedia.com/support/service/ts/documents/download_trial.htm#errortwo
and http://www.portablestore.com/roxio/html/downloadtimes.html?

But they tend to show different times, so I was hoping that someone
might know of a more authoritative source - for example a site that has
done some benchmarks, testing downloading with different connections and
file sizes.

 

[Christopher R]

Anyone know of a good webmaster-type resource that gives you a chart of
estimated file download times for large files (e.g., videos), broken
down by connection speeds? I want to post some fairly huge QuickTime
videos on a web page, along with a chart that lets people know how long
it will take to download them with their connection.

Thanks in advance.

Winston,
Thank you for your post. I have download video(s) on my site and plan to do
the same thing. If you want to encourage people to download your video,
then I would suggest taking the most optimistic number and saying
approximately before it.
What is your site?
If anyone would like to download the free video on my site, I would like to
know how long it took you and what your connection is.
Regards,
Christopher
www.easydesktopyoga.com

 

[Winston]

Thanks Christopher. Nice site - I could use some office yoga myself!
The videos I was referring to are for a client - not my own.