For example YouTube is a video streaming service. Such streaming services even prevent the storage and use of the downloaded data. Please note that downloading is not the same as data transfer.
The term "data transfer" is used to denote moving or copying data between storage devices. Receiving data from the Internet is downloading. The duration of the download is known as download time. Download time is the time needed to transfer a file from the Internet to a local computer, phone, tablet or other Internet-connected device. The download time is determined by the connection speed between the two devices and the size of the transferred file.
The connection speed is determined by the hardware capabilities of the two devices and also the ISP Internet Service Provider that they use. A faster connection speed will result a faster download and shorter download time. Of course, a smaller file will require shorted download time too. Download speed is the amount of data that is transferred per second between two Internet-connected devices.
But unless you queue them up in a specific order, you never know for sure which one will finish first. It can depend on several factors, some of which are a bit random. Also, you can prioritize the order of files in each of the uTorrent downloads. The size of torrent downloads can vary considerably. But there are other things to consider as well. The speed at which a torrent will move depends on how many peers and seeders it has.
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.
So you set it to download just the first one or couple of files, and then when they're done downloading you go back into the settings for the torrent and set it to download the next one or few files. Rinse and repeat. This is a useful, but just really boring and annoying task to do. I think Transmission would really set itself apart from other clients in simplicity and a good user experience if you could find a way to automate this process.
Let me. This should, of course, be completely optional. It should be just as easy to only download the selected files, and not automatically download the next ones. That's it. Letting me "set it and forget it" like this, instead of having to open up the torrent client again every time I get a notification that some files are done, just to manually select the next files in the list to download, would be a huge quality of life improvement for a torrent client IMO.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:. Hi forteller , thanks for the suggestion! A lot of this overlaps with , so I'm going to mark this as a duplicate.
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