Please answer this download speed question

[Conquest10]

^ Check my post

EDIT: what's going on baby?

46 kb/s (or Kb/s) = 368 kilobits per second on dsl.

[thecoalman]

^ Check my post

EDIT: what's going on baby?

46 kb/s (or Kb/s) = 368 kilobits per second on dsl.

Every transfer rate I have ever seen has always denoted the difference between kilobit and kilobyte by capitilization of the B for Kilobyte and lowercase for kilobit.


46 KB/s = 368 kbps

or

46 kb/s = 5.75 KB/s

The /s or ps are interchangeable, at least from all of the pages I have seen.

[james636]

Thanks for clearing that up coalman; some people are still confused about B (Byte) and b (Bit). So when one posts something like 46Kbps (46 kilobits) I'm sure they mean 46KB/s (46 kilobytes); 46KB/s is way faster than 46Kbps. thecoalman

[Skith]

Just out of curiosity, are you measuring your speeds via windows performance tab (task manager), going by downloading files, or some other tool? (Yes, I know there are many ways/tools sites etc. to do this, but I am intersted in what tools your divine wisdom lead you to.)

Who are you talking to?

I have a download manager that displays the speed.

I was basically addressing you (and anyone else who listed download speeds). Sorry I did not make that clear. I was just wondering how (everyone) came up with their speeds. (I'm sort of a freeware/tool junkie. :P )

That said, I have 3Mb Cable down, and I max downloads at about 240kB.

[bazooka]

I use the download manager in Firefox.