This is all very well but sometimes when people write 500 they really mean 512, so where does that leave you ?8-) Marc
s vermill wrote: > > Here's a perfectly illustrative example of how common it is to jumble all > this terminology up... > > I often use a download test site at PC Pitstop: > > http://www.pcpitstop.com/internet/Bandwidth.asp > > I ran a quick download test that transferred a "500 KB" block of text to my > machine. It took 2.744 seconds to complete. Thus, the result was returned > as "1458 Kb/s." Here's the math: > > (assuming decimal) > > 500 * 1000 * 8 = 4,000,000 bits / 2.77 seconds = ~1,458,000 bits/sec = ~1458 > decimal kbits/sec or ~1423 binary Kbits/sec > > Now... > > (assuming binary) > > 500 * 1024 * 8 = 4,096,000 bits / 2.77 seconds = ~1,478,000 bits/sec = ~1478 > decimal kbits/sec or ~1443 binary Kbits/sec > > So, in spite of the fact that they are using the binary upper-case K > throughout, they are obviously meaning the decimal lower-case k, which > makes sense given that throughput is expressed that way. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=65236&t=65211 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
