1megabit = 1 megabit and not 1000megabit...
1megabit = 1000kilobit....

if I'm not mistaken, kbps is for kilobits per second and kb/s is for kilobytes per second, right?

we're talking about bit and bytes here

1 bytes = 8bit

This post has been edited by ali_boulala: Nov 12 2008, 10:40 PM

Wikipedia got the formula:


((1000 * 1000) / 8) / 1024 = 122kB/s

so definitely kilobytes value should have been smaller than kilobits value am I right ali?

no la bro, "/" pronounce as per. so kb/s=kilobit per second, well not eg: kilobit slash second..

yeah so, but kilobits per seconds should been written as kbit/s or kbps, kb/s is kilobytes per second. Go here, take a look closely http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobit_per_s...obit_per_second

wrong foot...
forgot d 8bit thingy...

'b' stands for 'bit' and 'B' stands for 'byte'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobit_per_s...obit_per_second

'b' vs 'B'

'b' stands for 'bit' and 'B' stands for 'byte', where one byte refers to 8 bits. This can lead to confusion, as when a "1 Mega" connection is advertised, it usually means 1 Mibit/s (mebibit per second) or 1.049 Mbit/s (megabit per second), meaning the maximum achievable download speed is actually about 128 KiB/s (kibibyte per second) or 131 kB/s (kilobyte per second).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobit_per_s...obit_per_second

Well, thanks for the non-confusing answer lol. B and b have different meaning. Going to remember that next time...

damn sarcastic...i got ur meaning farcry...

LOL, what was that suppose to mean?

ISP's just like to use bits to make the number look big, have to remind yourself to divide by 8 and minus another 20% overhead.

oh noes not this b and B discussion again

i'm surpised anyway, for some1 who download a lot, dun really know the difference between bit and bytes and their standard nomination, and dare to say he knows wat he's writing....
not intentional flame, but your statement really sounded like tin kosong until you got corrected...
i don't go around correcting ppl to shame them, just that obvious mistakes like tat should be avoided, and u make so many misinformed statements tat will only make a fool of yourself when people in the know read it

This post has been edited by alwizbthere: Nov 13 2008, 12:08 AM

haha, mistakes on my side, really... no need to flame lor...

what the heck?

this thread become bytes calculation?

its start from me lol .. my RS speed like shіt here so they want me to test with speedtest..

Google have the answer

lalala...i'm having a 40GB acc here...
and my speed is...speechless...
using laptop and desktop for full blast...