--- Hrushikesh Tilak hg_tilak@msn.com wrote:
I guess (please correct) a 56 KBPs modem allows a maximum inflow(&outflow!) of 56 KiloBits ps of data between 2 computers. But still most(or all?) ISPs in Mumbai offer download speeds(the thing that u see in the browser downloader or a download manager) is only 5KBPs.
There is a difference between the small b (bit) and the big (Byte)... it's always small in Kbps.. coz transfer speeds are measured in bits bytes are ususlly associated with data storage for eg. (files on hdd, cdrom are measured in bytes/kilobytes and so on)
So when we here about Broadband Internet of 1MBPs or 128 KBPs...what are the actual download speeds?
8 bits = 1 Byte tht's why if you translate 1 Mbps line into bits it would be 1024 Kbps.. download managers usually do the bit to Byte conversion automatically for the user... now if you are converting a 1024 kilobit connection to a "KiloByte" connection it will become 1024/8, which essentially translates to 128 KBps (notice the big "B") ur getting
Why dont all the people refer to actual download speeds rather than the max transfer speeds while referring to their connection?
Download Speeds are always in Kbps not in KBps.. it's the download managers at fault not the ISP's
Happy Pondering Pranav
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