How do you work out these download coasts?

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 7:22 pm

http://www.edgemu.com/bandwidth.php

So if you're using 1Mb/sec of bandwith, and have, on avergae, 10 people downloading at 100kb/sec each at any time (1MB total), how much would you pay a month (ignoring server costs etc.)?

oakfan · Post by **oakfan** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 7:29 pm

8bits = 1 byte

so 1Megabit connection = 125KiloBytes a sec not 10 100KB/s connections

Your math was a bit off

small b = bits

Big B = Bytes

oakfan · Post by **oakfan** » Thu Apr 24, 2003 8:34 pm

I used to be on Earthlink DSL on a 1Mbit line and I paid about 50$ a month for that

az_bont · Post by **az_bont** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 9:36 am

oakfan wrote:8bits = 1 byte

so 1Megabit connection = 125KiloBytes a sec not 10 100KB/s connections

Your math was a bit off

small b = bits

Big B = Bytes

Aahh, I was wondering about that - it's jsut that I'm used to seeing kilobyte as kb, and so I thought Mb was MB

. But was I right in theory - that you could have a number of people downloading from you at that speed and it would only cost what it stated? So doing the maths you'd end up with around 308GB/month bandwith?

mikelomax · Post by **mikelomax** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 10:01 am

this is one of the major headaches in my course for me. bits and bytes.

why can't they just standardise it? oh yeah, because they are b******s.