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Posted by dj_cuba on Feb-26-2004 15:14:

Mathematics & Modems!

I will be getting a 1mb connection next month and I have been trying to work out just what that means. Basically I want to know how long it will take me to d/l a megabyte with this connection. Iam not very clued up when it comes to bits, bytes etc and so far I haven't had any luck

Posted by whiskers on Feb-26-2004 15:19:

1mb = about 150kb/s, so at your max speed it'll take you about 8 seconds.

Posted by dj_cuba on Feb-26-2004 15:32:

quote:
Originally posted by whiskers
1mb = about 150kb/s, so at your max speed it'll take you about 8 seconds.

Is that definate? Another website I've posted on told me it would take 80 seconds. If it is 8 seconds though that would be really cool

Posted by Typhoon on Feb-26-2004 17:07:

1/8 = 0.125
So your max speed is 125 Kbyte per second (a byte has 8 bits). Thus to download a megabyte at your maximum speed u would need 8 seconds. You won't get that much speed all the time though!

Posted by starglider on Feb-26-2004 17:09:

There are 8 bits in 1 byte, so a 1 Mb connection equates to, as pointed out, about 1024/8 = 128 KB/s (notice we use small b for bit and big B for byte). Downloading 1 MB (1024 KB) would thus take about 1024/128 = 8 s. Of course you rarely get the full speed as advertised, but it will certainly be quicker than 80 s to download a megabyte (that would equate to under 13 KB/s, for the record).

Posted by robin on Feb-26-2004 17:27:

1mbit is 1024kbit is 128kbyte/s minus 14% (tpc overhead) is 110kb/s and thats about what you can expect