I am working on a distance learning site that incorporates several quicktime movie files for students to view before they take assignments. Rather than streaming video, I have chosen to embed these video files, allowing the students to save them to their hard drives and view repeatedly while working on the assignment.

Obviously, I am trying to anticipate the long[er] download times associated with dial-up access ... is there anyway of giving an approximate download time for students to understand they may want to down-load these files in advance?

ie: 60.6 MB @ 56kbs = 6 hrs download time

Or something like that ... [geez, just 2 weeks with a cable connection and I have no idea what 56k means for downloads ...]


I can appreciate that d/load times are subject to many outside influences, but would still like your comments, or even some kind of chart to help forcast expected down-load times.


thanks,

i think what is usually done is just pure maths. they define the usual speed either 28.8k or 56k and then just use a constant to divide the filesize by.

don't ask me to explain that.... who remembers this stuff anyway

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thanks anyway ... but I found what I needed at:

http://www.absolutecross.com/webmaster/tools/download-time/

- just sharing the knowledge ....


darrin

that's SO funny; when i saw ur thread, i KNEW i saw that tool somewhere before - recently (but i couldn't, for the life of me, remember) and no wonder... I was at absolutecross just a couple of days ago! Fantastic graphics on that site.

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