Connection questions

[bellgamin]

I have a program (EMSA Bandwidth Monitor) that expresses my upload & download speeds in terms of "KBps". I am paying my IPS for a certain speed, but it is expressed as "mbps"

I *think* "KBps" means "kilobytes per second" and "mbps" means "megabits persecond."

Questions:

1- Am I correct in my definitions of KBps & mbps? If not, what are the correct meanings?

2- Can anyone tell me the formula for accurately converting from KBps to mbps?

Aloha from Hawaii,
bellgamin

[LenC]

http://www.convertunits.com/from/Kbps/to/Mbps

[dw426]

Originally Posted by bellgamin

I have a program (EMSA Bandwidth Monitor) that expresses my upload & download speeds in terms of "KBps". I am paying my IPS for a certain speed, but it is expressed as "mbps"

I *think* "KBps" means "kilobytes per second" and "mbps" means "megabits persecond."

Questions:

1- Am I correct in my definitions of KBps & mbps? If not, what are the correct meanings?

2- Can anyone tell me the formula for accurately converting from KBps to mbps?

Aloha from Hawaii,
bellgamin

That's right, you got it. Now, to convert, take your ISP stated upload and download speed (like 10Mbps download, 1Mbps upload) and divide by 8 to go from Mbps to Kbps. On the connection example I gave, 10Mpbs is 10,000 Kbps, so just go from there. I hope I helped (and I hope I'm correct, I did look it up. This is how I've always done it with uTorrent).

[HAN]

Yep, 8 bits per byte

[Sadeghi85]

Although deviding by 8 is technically correct, deviding by ten is more practical.

So 10Mpbs = 10240Kbps = 1024KBps (rather than 1280KBps)