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. -- Rob Sharp email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://sharp.id.au pgp: 0E2C C63B BA04 DEB4 7CC0 84FD 17E3 6AA4 87FB 62DF
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