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Transfer Time Estimator

Before you promise counsel same-day delivery from the venue: how long that upload actually takes, and what time it finishes.

What you're sending, and how

The question that decides whether you promise same-day delivery from the hotel or wait until you're back at the office.

File size

Unit

Don't know the size? Estimate it first.

Connection

Use your upload speed, not the download figure on the advertisement.

Upload speed (Mbps)

Real-world efficiency

No transfer ever runs at the rated line speed. TCP overhead, packet loss, and everyone else on the same access point all take a cut.

Start at

Defaults to now. Set it to plan an overnight push.

Estimated Transfer Time

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Finishes At

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Effective Throughput

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Transferred Per Hour

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Same file, other connections

At the efficiency setting selected above — useful when you're deciding whether to upload from the venue or drive the drive.

Connection	Rated speed	Effective	Transfer time

When the math says no. If the upload runs past the delivery deadline, the answer is not a faster promise — it is a smaller file, an overnight courier, or a proxy delivered now with the master to follow. Send counsel a 2 Mbps H.264 review copy tonight and the ProRes master tomorrow, and say so in the delivery email. A late master with a note beats a missed deadline with an excuse.

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