On 1/6/06, Chris Deigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/6/06, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm looking at setting up 'internet radio' to listen to overseas streaming
> > b/cast via windoze media player, whilst playing, the player shows:
> > '16Kbit/sec'

16 KBits not 16KBytes!

> >
> > how to guestimate what volume of traffic (ISP account limit) to get for
> > this, if this was to run 24x7 ?
>
> Using maths!
>

> > 16 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 30
> = 41472000 KiB
> > 41472000.0 / 1024 / 1024
> = 39.55078125 GiB

So I reckon it could be

2 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 30
= 5184000 KB
5184000.0 / 1024 / 1024
4.94384765625 GiB

KBit vs KByte can be confusing. Back in the days of Super Nintendo,
they marketed memory size in KBits - very odd, but it's eight times
bigger, so it must be good. It makes sense in networking terms though,
where data has to be sent serially.

HTH,
Rob.


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