Hence they had...
Kbs for bits (small b)
KBs for bytes (big B)
Ben
Rob Sharp wrote:
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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