The Amount of Data and Bandwidth Required for Graphics and Photos

In today's world, jail cell phones have become and then advanced in their ability to accept photos, that every-twenty-four hours people tin can enjoy a photograph shoot at any time and upload the images to social media. Advancements in engineering have resulted in larger file sizes in photos, videos, animated graphics and web pages. This has impacted many professional fields such as photography, graphic designers, website designers and other people who work with images or files.

So what does this hateful in terms of my information and bandwidth requirements with my Internet provider?

When posting photos to Facebook or bankroll up a calculator to the cloud, you are "uploading information." And if the term "data" threw yous, there'south a simple explanation for its employ in the Internet industry: "Data" is a coating term for ANY information sent betwixt computers, whether it'south a webpage, an email with vacation photos or uploading a photograph shoot to an online web service, similar Dropbox.

In our previous blog posts on requirements for email, VoIP, streaming music and web browsing, nosotros have documented the data that is used for each awarding because it is not always articulate how much data is existence sent or received.

With graphics and photos information technology is crystal clear. The amount of data beingness used is the amount of the file size itself, i.due east., if y'all have a loftier resolution photograph that y'all e-mail to your father, and the photo is iv.5 Megabytes in size. You are "uploading" 4.5 MB plus the email itself.

The speed that information technology is being transferred is at present your most of import factor, which has everything to do with "upload" speed. How much time do y'all want to spend waiting for your files to "upload?"

Your time – when information technology's gone, it's gone.

Most people empathize download speed, but what is upload speed? Put simply, information technology's the speed at which information is sent from your computer to some other computer in a given second. Basically, an upload is sent in the opposite direction of the download.

Following are some examples of information usage:

  • A photographer shoots 5 photos in RAW image format, and each photo is over 26 MB in size, to upload those photos to an online storage web service you would be looking at a 130 MB file upload. Your data used would be 130 MB:
    • 5 X 26 MB = 130 MB
    • Information used: 130 MB or .13 GB
  • Same photographer shoots 100 photos from a photo shoot in RAW paradigm format. Each photo is 26 MB. To upload these photos to an online storage web service you would exist sending 2.vi GB of data. Your data used would be two.vi GB:
    • 100 Ten 26 = 2600 MB
    • 2600 MB = 2.half-dozen GB
  • Same photographer shoots 100 photos 5x a calendar week in RAW epitome format. Each photograph is 26 MB. To upload these photos to an online storage web service this photographer would be sending xiii GB of data a week. Your information used would be 13 GB a week, or 59 GB a calendar month:
    • 26 X 100 = 2600 MB
    • 2600 MB X five = 13000 MB a week
    • 13000 MB = 13 GB a week
    • 13 GB a week 10 4.v weeks per calendar month = 59 GB a calendar month of data
  • Amateur photographer shoots 100 photos a calendar week in high resolution paradigm format. Each photo is 4.5 MB. To upload these photos to an online storage web service this photographer would be sending .45 GB of data a week (1/2 a GB).
    • 4.5 X 100 = 450 a week
    • 450 MB a week = .45 GB a week
    • .45 GB a week X 4.5 weeks per calendar month = 2 GB a month of data

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Following are some examples of file upload speeds:

Speeds are determined by the number of Mega Bits being sent. For example, let'south say you lot want to upload a 4.v MByte file x 100 = 450 MByte file (or files) in size.
(450,000,000 Bytes x 8 Bits in a Byte = 3,600,000,000 Mega Bits or 3.6 Giga Bits)

  • At .512 Mbps up, information technology volition take almost 2 hours to upload.
    (3,600,000,000 Mega Bits / 512,000 bps = vii,032 seconds / threescore = 118 Minutes)
  • At 1 Mbps up, it will take 1 hour, or ½ of the fourth dimension of the .512 Mbps.
    (3,600,000,000 Mega $.25 / 1,000,000 bps = 3,600 seconds / 60 = lx Minutes)
  • At 2 Mbps up, it will have 30 Minutes to upload, or 1/4 of the .512 Mbps.
    (3,600,000,000 Mega Bits / ii,000,000 bps = one,800 seconds / 60 = 30 Minutes)
  • At 3 Mbps up, it will take 20 Minutes to upload, or 1/half dozen of the .512 Mbps.
    (3,600,000,000 Mega Bits / 3,000,000 bps = ane,200 seconds / lx = 20 Minutes)
  • At 4 Mbps up, it will take 15 Minutes to upload, or 1/8 of the .512 Mbps.
    (three,600,000,000 Mega $.25 / 4,000,000 bps = 900 seconds / sixty = 15 Minutes)
  • At 5 Mbps upwardly, it will take 12 Minutes to upload, or 1/9 of the .512 Mbps.
    (3,600,000,000 Mega Bits / 5,000,000 bps = 720 seconds / 60 = 12 Minutes)

What does this all mean to yous? It ways that if you lot are working with a lot of graphic images or large file formats, and are sending them to the web or using the Net for backup, y'all will want a faster "Upload" speed. You would as well desire a plan that would include enough gratis data to encompass all of your needs.

Real estate companies, car dealerships, photography studios, newspapers, medical facilities, graphic and website designers will all benefit from more UP speeds. It makes y'all more efficient. And more efficiency means more than money.

GoBrolly recommends starting with the Better-for-Video plan or the Habitation Office plan. Y'all can always upgrade, it is that elementary.