How to calculate data transfer speeds.
When calculating data transfer rates we have to understand a few things. Firstly for this example we are ignoring network latency and additional packet data that gets sent along with the file. Next we need to understand the units of measurement and it’s here that some people have trouble and a lot of sites out there publish incorrect methods.
Namely the ‘answers’ sites where people ask this very question and either get responses incorrect working/ logic or told to find an online calculator neither of which are of any help to anyone. There is probably a really nice and simple equation for doing this without the below calculations but I will write my method down here. To begin with let us take our example file of say a 2 Gb file size and a transfer speed of 50 Mbps
