Thursday, April 4, 2013

Please correct a common mistake


friends 1Kbps is not 1KBps. There's
a a small difference of b which
makes a huge difference in MBps
and Mbps.
None the less many people do
confuse in these terms and do get
happy when they hear that their
internet speed is 1Mbps but actually
its 128KBps and complain after
wards 'That my speed is 1Mbps but
still it doesn't download a 4MB file
in 4 secs. :p
Kbps means Kilo'bits' per second
not Kilo'bytes' per second.
Since Bytes is a huge amount in
relation to networking so most
networkoperator s give the data
transfer in Kilo'bits' not Kilo'bytes'
while all the computer files exists in
bytes.
To convert bits to bytes divide that
databy 8 (since 1byte = 8bits). So
next time when you buy a modem
or get a connection do check the 'b'
and find out its real speed. :D

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