Re: [WISPA] How much data

2008-06-20 Thread Rogelio
Chris Caputo wrote: 10,299.68 megabytes per day = 10.06 gigabytes per day Yup, Chris is right. My math was really sloppy there; thanks for the correction. (Close enough for government work, though!) WISPA Wants

Re: [WISPA] How much data

2008-06-20 Thread Rogelio
David E. Smith wrote: Unless you can know in advance exactly what kind of traffic the link will be handling (which is rare but not impossible) it's all guesswork anyway :D True. In fact, much of the 20-25 Mbps (or whatever) pt-to-pt traffic graphs I see often presuppose a certain mix of

Re: [WISPA] How much data

2008-06-18 Thread Rogelio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok silly question that has probably been asked a million times. But if a user had a 1M connection how much data in Megs could he transfer if it ran at maximum capacity for 24 hours? A 1Mbps connection, right? 1 byte / 8 bits = 1/8 MB therefore, 1 megabit = 8

Re: [WISPA] How much data

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Caputo
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Rogelio wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok silly question that has probably been asked a million times. But if a user had a 1M connection how much data in Megs could he transfer if it ran at maximum capacity for 24 hours? A 1Mbps connection, right? 1 byte / 8 bits

Re: [WISPA] How much data

2008-06-18 Thread David E. Smith
Chris Caputo wrote: Speed is by powers of 10 and quantity is by powers of 2. So Mbps is 1,000,000 bits per second, while a megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. If we're picking nits, don't forget the fact that most users are more concerned with how fast does my Web page load, so you have to account

[WISPA] How much data

2008-06-17 Thread Sales
Ok silly question that has probably been asked a million times. But if a user had a 1M connection how much data in Megs could he transfer if it ran at maximum capacity for 24 hours? Thanks, John Buwa WISPA Wants

Re: [WISPA] How much data

2008-06-17 Thread D. Ryan Spott
There is a handy calculator here: http://www.tranzeofaq.com/bandwidthcalc.html ryan On Jun 17, 2008, at 6:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok silly question that has probably been asked a million times. But if a user had a 1M connection how much data in Megs could he transfer if it ran

Re: [WISPA] How much data

2008-06-17 Thread Ryan Langseth
Here is another one (written by a friend of mine) it will calculate the missing value (time, speed, or size) http://therub.org/calc/ another good option is google calc: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enclient=firefox-arls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficialhs=Cd7q=1+Mbps+*+24+hoursbtnG=Search