good at maths?

[aidanjm]

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)?

 

[SLCentral]

16 x 60 x 60 x 24 = # of Kb's. Divide by 1000 (or is it 100) to get MB.

 

[Malak]

Divide by 1024

 

[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.

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

how many kilobits in a byte?

 

[NiKeFiDO]

then multiply by 8 to get Mb ! but no one cares about that...

 

[NiKeFiDO]

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.

Kbps = kilobits?

how many kilobits in a byte?

8 bits in a byte so divide by 8 to get MB from Mb

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: NiKeFiDO

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.

Kbps = kilobits?

how many kilobits in a byte?

8 bits in a byte so divide by 8 to get MB from Mb

wha?

 

[DaTT]

is it not 8 bits to a byte?

 

[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.

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.

 

[SLCentral]

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.

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.

Eep. Read the OP wrong. So it should be 16 / 8 x 60 x 60 x 24 / 1000.

 

[ngvepforever2]

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

 

[Cristatus]

1.318359375 megabytes?

 

[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?)

 

[SLCentral]

Originally posted by: logic1485
1.318359375 megabytes?

I'm getting something around 172MB per day.

 

[aidanjm]

Originally posted by: SLCentral

Originally posted by: logic1485
1.318359375 megabytes?

I'm getting something around 172MB per day.

that seems a bit more reasonable I guess than 1.3 gig


About 7 Mb per hour of listening pleasure

 

[shilala]

I'm bad at maths.

 

[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?)

i thought a kilobit was 1024 bits?

 

[Malak]

168.75MB to be exact.

Final Answer.

 

[aidanjm]

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?)

i thought a kilobit was 1024 bits?

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

 

[EmperorIQ]

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.

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

how many kilobits in a byte?

there are 8 bits in a byte

 

[firewall]

Isn't that kilobits, not kilobytes? There are 8 bits to a byte.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Originally posted by: Malak
168.75MB to be exact.

Final Answer.

Agreed

 

[firewall]

(16Kbits * 60 seconds * 60 minutes * 24 hours) / 8 = 172,800KBytes = 168.75MB (@1024KB-->1MB)

 

[DrPizza]

LMAO, the thread was about downloading math, and degenerating into a mathematical discussion of how to calculate MB's

 

[imported_goku]

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.

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

how many kilobits in a byte?

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