speed question

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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You are not entirely wrong that the terms are used interchangably. Some 
programs report kilobytes as KBPS instead of KB/S even though it is 
confusing. Just keep in mind that most of the time when talking about 
bandwidth the measurement is in bits, and in most other cases the 
measurement is in bytes.
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: speed question


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> Thanks. I was always under the impression that KbpS and Kb/S were both
> interchangeable, and stood for Kilobytes per second.
>
> I notice that lynx the cat reports download speeds in Kb/s, while the
> statistics page of my ADSL modem reports the speed in KbpS. Knowing
> that they're both different, and that one is Kilobits, while the other
> is Kilobytes, 1360 KbPs is a lot closer to 1536 KbpS. Doing some
> calculations shows me that I should be getting 192 Kb/S max, but I
> suppose I should take into account the bandwidth of other machines,
> and the latency of the net in general.
>
> Greg
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> On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 05:47:39PM -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote:
>> I think you may need to sort out acronyms. I believe kbps typically
>> means killobits per second, whereas kb/s typically means kilobytes per
>> second. There are 8 kilobits in a kilobyte, therefore 170 kb/s = 1360
>> kbps. Hopefully I am not just talking out my ass and I am remembering
>> this stuff correctly.
>>
>> HTH
>>
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>> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
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>> Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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