On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 12:42 -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: > Yes. 3 megaBITs per second is just over 300 kiloBYTEs per second. > There > are 8 bits per byte, plus there's packet and protocol overhead, so a > 10:1 ratio between the numbers is normal. Actually not. Even discounting protocol overhead, a 3Mbps connection is 3 million (3x10^6) bits per second. 300KB of data is 300 kilobytes (300x2^10) bytes. The fact that communications and computer people have different interpretation of kilo and mega (and giga and ...) is a source of much confusion. In computing we're supposed to use kebi, mebi etc. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix) for the powers of 2, but not many do. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
