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by ron hagge Oct 31, 2000 last reply Nov 9, 2000

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I was trying to calculate throuput in downloading a file from a web site.
I took the size of the file in Kilobytes
then divide the time in seconds it takes to complete the transfer which should result in the the number of Kilobytes per second. But if most systems use Kilobits per second how do you convert ?

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by mbarker734 Oct 31, 2000

There are 8 bits to a byte.(b)

There are 1024 bytes to the kilobyte(KB)

There are 1000 KB to the megabyte (MB)

Hope this helped,

Mark

by ron hagge Nov 9, 2000

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by rockyolson Oct 31, 2000

Hi I know of a much easier way:) go to msn.com in the right column ther is a link for computing and the web, click on it and when the next window open look for speed test, click on it and wait. It will tell you your rate of connection. rockyolson@charter.net