How Long Does it Take Your Connection to Upload Data?

So no matter what your connection speed is, you always have to give up a portion of that to overhead. How much you give up to overhead will depend on the those above-mentioned factors but ideally it should be around 10 percent. What is overhead? It’s kind of complicated, but basically, you never get all the bandwidth available because a portion of it is lost for things like turning your data into packets, addressing it, dealing with collisions, basic inefficiencies in networking technologies, and other factors. Psssst … Don’t Forget Your Overhead!Īnother thing you can’t really control is overhead. Unfortunately, there’s not too much you an really do about latency, and it can make even fast connections feel slow.

High latency simply means that it will take longer for a packet of data to make a round trip from your computer to the remote server and then return to you. Thus, latency is going to affect the overall speed of your connection.

Even a short trip to a more local server is going to have to go through several hops before it it gets there and back, which is why it takes 38 ms to ping a server only 100 miles away.

Google drive upload stuck halfway