Please help with my maths!

[Dolby]

A wireless connection is typically 54mbps. Now I understand that's under ideal conditions as well, so more than likely 40mbps.

Does that equate to 5MB/sec? Am I right in saying about 15 minutes to transfer a 5GB then?

 

[tco21]

40mbps = 40 megabits per second.

8bits in a byte.
Mega = million.
Therefore 40mbps = 40 000 000 bits per second.
Divide by 8 gives you bytes.
Therefore 40mbps = 5 000 000 bytes per second.
Divide by 1024 gives you Kilobytes per second = 4882.8125 Kb
Divide by a further 1024 gives you Megabytes per second.

So that equals 4.76MB/s.

So to answer your question, it would take about 19 minutes to transfer 5Gb.

 

[Cyberdude]

So to answer your question, it would take about 19 minutes to transfer 5Gb.

Assuming you don't get capped along the way

 

[Park@82]

And assuming you get to utilize 40mbps of the 54mbps theoretical speed.

 

[dequadin]

Don't forget about the Contention ratio

 

[rudirautenbach]

Also remember signal quality (not strength) plays a huge role in throughput speeds.