It's not 1000MB or 1,000,000KB ect... Computers only work with powers of 2 so you get, 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128 ect.., it takes 8 bits to make a byte. Thus 4 is 2 to the power of 2 in binary 4 would be 00100000. One Byte is all 8 binary digits grouped together. So 1MB is actually 1048KB which is 1,048,576 Bytes 2 to the power of 20. then you take that and multiply that by 8 = 8,388,608 bits, which is all the ones and zeros your modem has to transmit. KB and MB are just units of deviation like millimeter, centimeter, meter, kilometer. For simplicity they just round things down, especially because like Macleod said you get a little over head in the data.
For the internet you can't have an IP digit greater than 255 because in an 8 bit octet it's 11111111. thus an IP of 192.168.0.1 is 00000011.00010101.00000000.100000000 each place in the binary represents the 1,2,4,8,32,64,124 so the first octet that's 192 says there is only 1-124 and 1-64 added together gives 192. So now you have had a brief explanation on Binary and you understand a little bit of how those 1's and 0's work in computers. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sprout Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 7:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds] Re: sv_unlag and Ping MB=mega byte Mb means mega bit ... thats where the confusion is its all in the abreviation but clayton has it right as well as james just diffeernt views but for the reasoning of the server I think its figured in bits so clayton is altimatly right ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Dalberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Re: sv_unlag and Ping > I'll second what Clayton says... 1000000b/s is 1Mbps > > Clayton Macleod wrote: > >>sorry, but you're wrong. 1Mbps in terms of *network communication* is >>always 1,000,000 bits, just like 1Kbps is always 1,000 bits. >> >>On 7/16/05, James Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Sorry, but I just want to verify, you do know those byte values are >>>wrong don't you? >>> >>>1MB is 1024 KB which is 1048576 Bytes, which is 8388608 bits. >>> >>>Gb->Mb->Kb always factors of 1024 different. >>>There are 8 bits in a byte. >>> >>>1Mbps (bits per second, the standard measurement for most >>>telcommunications speeds) >>> >>>1Mbps is capable of sending 1024kbps, which is 1048576 bits per second. >>>128k is actually 131072 bits per second 16k is 16384 bits per second. >>> >>>Rounded values are however good as they leave some space for >>>oversubscription / link control / protocol overhead. >>> >>>Yeah, I couldn't recommend running a server on 16kbps up. >>> >>> >> >> >>-- >>Clayton Macleod >> >>_______________________________________________ >>To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>please visit: >>http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
