Re: download times

by Michael Jon Muehlendorf <haoka(at)wi.tds.net>

Date:	Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:22:43 -0600
To:	shawn(at)sportsstuff.com, html list <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	sportsstuff
	todo: View Thread, Original

Hello Shawn!

Although it would be great if you could list all of the download times, you
might have a pretty length list by the time you add all of the filenames
and all of the d/l times. A practice I adopted a while back is to simply
list the file, and give an approx. file size...either in KBytes, or rounded
MBytes. e.g. somefile.zip -- 4100K, or somefile.zip 4.1MB.

There are so many factors to consider when calculating d/l time. With
millions of users logging "on" or "in" covering a whole spectrum of speeds,
you would work yourself to death trying to calculate, much less "list" them
all. I hope this helps.

Happy HTMLing!

Mike

At 10:17 AM 1/24/01 -0600, Shawn Sass wrote:
>Hello list,
>Does anyone know of an easy way to find the ~approx~
>download times for file sizes?  I have a bunch of files to
>put on a website and I want to offer the user an estimated
>time of download for the different sized files.  Does anyone
>know of an easy way to go about this?  I've got 51 different
>sized files so I don't want to have to open each one in
>fireworks and export just to find out the estimated time for
>download on a 56k modem.
>
>Thanks
>
>--
> _________________
>_\ |-| /\ \/\/ /\/
>o-o Shawn Sass-Graphic Artist
>o-o-o-o-o-o-o Sportsstuff Inc
>o- http://www.sportsstuff.com
>o-o-o- 1-888-814-8833 ext 241
>
>PS.  Did anyone get my post on opening a window with
>javascript when using an image map?
>
>

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