Daniel: Sorry, for placing on discuss. I am still learning, where and what, for the lists.
I figured that I would not use the amount of download but curious. You answered the implied question, however, the part that I am still wondering about, and, I realize that it doesnot matter a twit, is the calculation. One part is in bits per second the other GB per month. When most people refer to 8 bit bytes, they are just talking about the data, not the rest of the message, or envelope etc. That is what I would like to clear up in this fossilizing brain. Parity and/or check bits, header and trailer or envelope bytes, these must add another 15% to the size of the data. ne c'est pas? Chris \Original follows I am investigating the idea of upgrading, updating my dial-up to ADSL. Sometimes the screen downloads are slow on dial-up, however, for software etc I use LeechGet. Now the speed on dial-up is connected at 50,666 bps, reports in Bytes received. So I assume that is bits per second. I have 300hr per month and the most I have used is 40 in a month. The ADSL is 1500 kilobits per second, 24/7 hook up. BUT, I noticed a cap on transfer at 10GB. (Also and additional 15hr of dial-up.) I realize that a kilo byte is 1024 bits. However, if I remember correctly to transfer a byte of data the byte is 8 bits but there is at least a parity bit and a check bit associated with the bytes. Further, when sending a message there are header bytes and trailer bytes. So all these must count in the 10GB of transfer, must not they? So if I ran a download at the 1500 kilobits per second constantly, (I understand that that is top speed and may not be achievable all the time.), how many hours until 10GB max used up? And how many GB transferred in one hour. I have calculated about 0.5 GB per hour. Any comments please. Chris
