On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Rogelio wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ok silly question that has probably been asked a million times. But if a > > user had a 1M connection how much data in Megs could he transfer if it ran > > at maximum capacity for 24 hours? > > A 1Mbps connection, right? > > 1 byte / 8 bits = 1/8 MB > > therefore, > > 1 megabit = 8 megabytes, which translates into .125 MB/s > > (mega means "thousand") > > There are about 1000 megabytes in a gigabyte (1024 KB * 1024 KB, to be > exact) > > 1/8 MB/s * 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours per day = 10,800 MB/day > > Or, roughly, about 11 GBs (about 2 to 3 DVDs worth of info). > > make sense?
Speed is by powers of 10 and quantity is by powers of 2. So Mbps is 1,000,000 bits per second, while a megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. Therefore: 1 Mbps = 1,000,000 bits per second 1,000,000 bits per second = 125,000 bytes per second 125,000 bytes per sec * 86,400 secs per day = 10,800,000,000 bytes per day 10,800,000,000 bytes per day = 10,546,875 kilobytes per day 10,546,875 kilobytes per day = 10,299.68 megabytes per day 10,299.68 megabytes per day = 10.06 gigabytes per day Chris -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
