Open discussion or Windows Support (the first choice is probably more appropriate).

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Remember that a KB is 1024 Bytes not 1000.

A computer is using binaries, not the decimal system.

Morgwen

To calculate bits to bytes (or the other way around...)http://www.beesky.com/newsite/bit_by...00&kilobytes=1
1 byte is still 8 bits. It gets a little weirder when you start mutliplying the bits (or bytes) by 10^x.

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Yes one byte is 8 bits, but you calculated with 1 KB = 1000 bytes and not 1024 bytes - check your result!

More info:

http://familyinternet.about.com/cs/c.../aa052401a.htm

Morgwen

Thanks for that link murasame. Looks like sometimes a kilobit is 1000 bits, sometimes it is 1024

True is that a kilobit is 1024 bits, as I said a computer uses binaries and not the decimal system:

1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 etc. this are the possible meausures. This is also the reason why the memory can´t have for example 50Mb or 100Mb. meausures that you can divide through 10 are always rounded!

Morgwen

True: binary for computer architecture (RAM, HD . . . )

decimal for communications bits.

So ISP bandwidth (the topic of this thread) is measured in decimal bits.

I have never heard anything about decimal bits, do you have a link?

As I said if you can divide it by 10 is ALWAYS rounded. Its technically not possible to tranfer data as a decimal!

A bit is only one energy impulse, you need 8 bits to display a sign (a byte).

Morgwen

it's on the bottom of the page from murasame's link http://www.beesky.com/newsite/bit_byte.htm

Ok I see. But Stief if you notice the conversation we talked about Kilobytes!

Seems like a kilobyte is also for tranfers 1024 bits.

Morgwen