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

Yes, I noticed.

The two standards give lots of chances for confusion, and it's hard to know (and not often particularly relevant) which system a program/ISP uses. Download speeds with BYTES might refer either to a casual abbreviation of communication speed OR to the speed it is being written to the hard drive. Only the developers know for sure

Just try working here in Canada with "ounces"! Caught between the British Imperial system and the US system, and confused by mass and volume "ounces", there is lots of room for confusion, especially with Grandma's recipes

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