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Thread ID: 104687	2009-11-05 03:42:00	How long would it take...	Cato (6936)	PC World Chat

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827274	2009-11-05 03:42:00	How long would it take to transfer some 30gb over Wifi? I'm suffering a brain fade today. Much appreciated.	Cato (6936)
827275	2009-11-05 03:49:00	Assuming your wifi is running at 54mbps, in theory... 54(mbps) divided by 8 (8 bits in a byte) = 6.75 (MB/sec) theoretical max transfer rate, we'll say 5MB/sec solid transfer rate cause you never get the max. In that case you would be transferring around 300mb a minute, or around 17.5GB every hour. So you'd be looking at anything around 2 hours.	wratterus (105)
827276	2009-11-05 04:00:00	but in reality, the average house has all sorts of electronics so you are more likely to get 4 or so meg, thats the best id get anyway	hueybot3000 (3646)
827277	2009-11-05 04:54:00	And obviously as distance between the AP and the device increases, speed will decrease. The steel in concrete walls is nasty too.	jwil1 (65)
827278	2009-11-05 05:25:00	For some reason I've never got more than 500kB/s over wifi.. Hope yours is faster... Do you have to transfer it over wifi? No chance of a cabled connection? Cheers	Dannz (1668)
827279	2009-11-05 05:55:00	Just copied a 1.02Gb file over wireless (gigabit connection from media server to wireless router, then 802.11n to laptop) - took 2:58. So Wrat's estimate is pretty good - around 330Mb/minute. Am sitting about 8 metres from router, but it's under the bed, and through two walls from where I'm sitting.	nofam (9009)
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