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good at maths?

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aidanjm

Lifer
BBC world service radio downloads at 16 Kbps - if I left this on all day, how much data would be downloaded in a 24 hour period (in megabytes)?

 
Originally posted by: SLCentral
16 x 60 x 60 x 24 = # of Kb's. Divide by 1000 (or is it 100) to get MB.
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But Kbps = kilobits per second (not Kb per second) - I think...

how many kilobits in a byte?
 
Originally posted by: SLCentral
16 x 60 x 60 x 24 = # of Kb's. Divide by 1000 (or is it 100) to get MB.
Click to expand...

Nope. First you ahve to do 16/8 to get KB/s (not 16 x 60...), you have to convert from kbps to KB/s. After that continue with your math.
 
Originally posted by: DeviousTrap
Originally posted by: SLCentral
16 x 60 x 60 x 24 = # of Kb's. Divide by 1000 (or is it 100) to get MB.
Click to expand...

Nope. First you ahve to do 16/8 to get KB/s (not 16 x 60...), you have to convert from kbps to KB/s. After that continue with your math.
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Eep. Read the OP wrong. So it should be 16 / 8 x 60 x 60 x 24 / 1000.
 
around 1.3 gigs a day I guess....

Regards

ng

edit: in MB it would be something of 1350 MB/day
edit2: if it's kilobits per second well 1350/8 is something around 168.5 MB
 
so 16 Kbps
= 16 kilobits per second
= 16 * 1000 bits per second
=(16 * 1000) / 8 bytes per second

=2000 bytes per second.

Is that correct???

(then multiply by 60 * 60 * 24 to get bytes per 24 hour period?)

 
Originally posted by: aidanjm
so 16 Kbps
= 16 kilobits per second
= 16 * 1000 bits per second
=(16 * 1000) / 8 bytes per second

=2000 bytes per second.

Is that correct???

(then multiply by 60 * 60 * 24 to get bytes per 24 hour period?)
Click to expand...

i thought a kilobit was 1024 bits?
 
Originally posted by: talyn00
Originally posted by: aidanjm
so 16 Kbps
= 16 kilobits per second
= 16 * 1000 bits per second
=(16 * 1000) / 8 bytes per second

=2000 bytes per second.

Is that correct???

(then multiply by 60 * 60 * 24 to get bytes per 24 hour period?)
Click to expand...

i thought a kilobit was 1024 bits?
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Ok, I looked it up:

In the U.S., Kbps stands for kilobits per second (thousands of bits per second) and is a measure of bandwidth (the amount of data that can flow in a given time) on a data transmission medium. Text
 
LMAO, the thread was about downloading math, and degenerating into a mathematical discussion of how to calculate MB's 🙂
 
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: SLCentral
16 x 60 x 60 x 24 = # of Kb's. Divide by 1000 (or is it 100) to get MB.
Click to expand...

But Kbps = kilobits per second (not Kb per second) - I think...

how many kilobits in a byte?
Click to expand...

that doesn't make any sense! You divide the kiliobits by 8 Because 8 bits in a byte, THEN you'll have kilobytes.
 
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