On 25 Jul 2000, 14:46, Brian L. Johnson wrote:
> I get a bit confused sometimes about kilobits and kilobytes, and how
> they compare to each other, like is a 56k modem 56 kilobits or
> kilobytes, and so on...
>
> For example, I stream a music channel at 128kbps, and that's less than
> 1/4 of my bandwidth, yet a file downloads at 48Kbps and uses up all my
> bandwidth...
>
> Where can I go to get this cleared up?
You might first review this definition of a byte at the Whatis site:
http://www.whatis.com/byte.htm
Albeit somewhat technical, Chapter One of Randall Hyde's Book "The Art of
Assembly Language" gives a greater and more thorough detail of binary data
organization (bits, nibbles, bytes, etc.)
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/Page_asm/ArtofAssembly/CH01/CH01-1.html
To learn more about baud rates and bits per second (bps) ratings for
modems, see Curt's High Speed Modems Page:
http://www.teleport.com/~curt/modems.html
See this section in his FAQ:
http://www.teleport.com/~curt/modems.html#bits-bytes
Alan
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