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Download speed calculator

Loading pages from the internet is never as fast as we want!
The following tabel gives you some idea of how long files might take to open.
But remember that the time taken depends on your internet connection, the speed of your computer, your router or modem, what else your computer is doing at the time, which program or browser you use, and many other things.

	Very old home MODEM	Standard home MODEM e.g. laptop	Xtra - Broadband in NZ	Wireless network	Company network
	33Kbps	56Kbps	3.5Mbps	10Mbps	100Mbps
A PowerPoint presentation which has one blank slide (SIZE = 8Kb)	0-5 seconds	0-5 seconds	0-5 seconds	Less than a second	Less than a second
A presentation that has ten slides with text, but no graphics (SIZE = 34Kb)	10-15 seconds	0-5 seconds	0-5 seconds	Less than a second	Less than a second
A presentation that has 50 slides with text, but no graphics (SIZE = 95Kb)	Upto a minute	30-60 seconds	0-5 seconds	Less than a second	Less than a second
The typical presentation (SIZE = 196Kb)	More than a minute	30-60 seconds	0-5 seconds	Less than a second	Less than a second
A 12 page Word document (SIZE = 120Kb)	More than 2 minutes	60+ seconds	5-10 seconds	0-5 seconds	Less than a second
A PowerPoint presentation which just fits on a floppy disk! (SIZE = 1.44Mb)	Upto 10 minutes	Upto 5 minutes	10-15 seconds	0-5 seconds	Less than a second