How Do You Calculate Data Transfer Rate?
A rate is a ratio between two types of measurements. Data transfer rate is the speed at which something can be transferred—for example, a video being downloaded from a website to your computer or a document being transferred from your computer’s hard drive to an external hard drive. It’s usually represented by showing how fast the device that’s doing the sending can send a certain amount of data—for example, 50 Kilobytes per Second, which is abbreviated to 50KB/s. Determine the size of the object being transferred. For this example, let’s say you’re downloading an online video. In your web browser’s download box, beneath the name of the video, it should say the video size. Let’s say this video is 100 megabytes (MBs). Determine the data transfer rate. Again, this will be shown in your web browser’s download box, beneath the name of the video. Suppose the video you are downloading is currently downloading at a speed of 50 kilobytes (KBs) per second. Determine the relationship between
