How much data does a speedtest use?

[mgoblueno1]

I'm heading down to Chicago and want to throw down a speed test to see how fast LTE really is. But I'm just wondering if I get like say 10mb down, and the test goes for 10 seconds, do I use 180mb of data? If anyone could fill me in on this one please let me know.

 

[dan330]

i got no idea... good question though..
but I on sprint unlimited, so never paid any attention.

 

[millzz]

The speed tests finish faster depending on how fast your connection is. So let's say you do a speed test at 10mbits/second, it takes 5 seconds, but if you do it at 50mbits/second it'll only take 1 second.

Also the speedtests are in megaBITS/second. So if you ran a 10 second speed test at 10mbits it would be far less than 100 megaBYTES. There is 8 bits in a byte. It might be something like 12megabytes if I'm not mistaken.

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.