Help with Kilobit and Megabyte conversion

[golfnut]

I am trying to calculate my download and upload speeds in kilobits. I called Comcast who is my cable internet provider and they said my download speed is 3MB and my upload speed is 256Kilobytes. Can someone tell me how to covert MB into kilobytes and does 256 kilobytes sound right for cable internet, sounds high to me? Thank you for your help.

[Ripper2860]

1 megabyte = 1,024 kilobytes

BTW -- I have comcast and the D/L speed should be 3Mb/s not 3MB/s.

B=Bytes, b=Bits.

Cable D/L should be approx. 2.5-3.0 Mbps and U/L 256Kbps -- again, bits not bytes.

[Solarjetman]

3Mb/s equals 384KB per second.

Note though that is a theoretical speed, actual speed is usualy less.

Also it is total speed, not payload speed. Payload is How fast you actualy download a file. There is overhead involved which is usualy around 10%. In other words you will not download a 384KB file in one second. You would only be able to download about a 346KB file in a second.

And the final aspect in download speed is traffic. If a server is flooded with traffic, it will slow your download.

[golfnut]

Thanks guys, great help.

golfnut