Clayton is correct, yes I made a mistake previously, but as he said in his e-mail, there is no debate.
On 7/18/05, Hemminger Corey SrA 735 CES/CEUD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. A computer might store it like that (it transmitted it like that). But 4 in 8-bit binary un-encoded should surely by 00000100. Anyone for now teaching endianess? Why not move onto a swift lesson on 2's complement and IEE754 floats. > 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. Thank you so much. > > -----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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
