confused with mbps

drumerdudeman · 06-02-2006, 11:14 PM

ok i second guessed myself today and realized that i might be thinking the wrong thing so i wanted to clear it up for myself.

is 1 mbps as in describing download speed, the same as 100kbps or is 1 mbps 1000kbps i need this to be cleared up in my mind.

Osiris · 06-03-2006, 12:41 AM

Definition: One kilobit per second (Kbps) equals 1000 bits per second (bps). Kbps is also written as kbps that carries the same meaning. Likewise, one megabit per second (Mbps) equals one million bps and one Gigabit equals one billion bps.

skinmeup · 06-03-2006, 10:46 AM

8 bits : 1 byte
1024 bytes: 1 kilobyte
1024 kilobytes: 1 megabyte.
so on and so forth.

bandwidth is usually measured in megaBITS not BYTES. so if you want bits instead of bytes then then multiply by 8 and viceversa for bytes

Law · 06-03-2006, 11:39 AM

When you refer to bits you usually capitalize the first letter for example Mbps (Megabits per second). People get it mixed up with megabytes per second which is abbreviated as MBps or KBps, GBps.

06-02-2006, 11:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
drumerdudeman True Techie Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 126	confused with mbps ok i second guessed myself today and realized that i might be thinking the wrong thing so i wanted to clear it up for myself. is 1 mbps as in describing download speed, the same as 100kbps or is 1 mbps 1000kbps i need this to be cleared up in my mind. __________________ 3.0 GHz Pent 4 w/HT 1 gig pc3200 RAM Soundblaster live 24 bit soundcard Sony 16x DVD-ROM LG 16x DVD-R+R-RW+RW ATI 9250 128mb Graphics 8-in-1 internal card reader

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06-03-2006, 12:41 AM	#2 (permalink)
Osiris I spend to much time here Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: USA Posts: 27,014	Definition: One kilobit per second (Kbps) equals 1000 bits per second (bps). Kbps is also written as kbps that carries the same meaning. Likewise, one megabit per second (Mbps) equals one million bps and one Gigabit equals one billion bps.

06-03-2006, 10:46 AM	#3 (permalink)
skinmeup Newb Techie Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 6	8 bits : 1 byte 1024 bytes: 1 kilobyte 1024 kilobytes: 1 megabyte. so on and so forth. bandwidth is usually measured in megaBITS not BYTES. so if you want bits instead of bytes then then multiply by 8 and viceversa for bytes

06-03-2006, 11:39 AM	#4 (permalink)
Law Wizard Techie Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 4,171	When you refer to bits you usually capitalize the first letter for example Mbps (Megabits per second). People get it mixed up with megabytes per second which is abbreviated as MBps or KBps, GBps.