Matthew Stainforth || Technical Services Manager || BrunNet Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Kliethermes [mailto:gary@thewebdepot.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 12:36 AM
> To: ntisp@iea-software.com
> Subject: Re: [NTISP] Conversion from Bit to byte
>
>
> Technically, you're correct, except that a T1 is actually 1,536,000
> bits/sec, which everyone rounds up to 1,544,000 bits/sec, and
> then they
> incorrectly change that to 1.544 megabits/sec. The actual
> max throughput of
> a T1 is 192,000 Kbits/sec or 187.5KB/sec.
>
> I've had a long day and it's pretty late, so I apologize if I
> made a simple
> math error in this anywhere.
>
> Gary
> gary@thewebdepot.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terry Bomersbach" <terryb@the-cia.net>
> To: <ntisp@iea-software.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 8:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [NTISP] Conversion from Bit to byte
>
>
> > Okay, just my best guesstimate. there is bit, byte (8
> bits), kilobyte
> (1,024 bytes) and megabyte (1,024 kilobytes)
> >
> > So a T1 is 1.544 Megabits or 1 Million, 544 thousand bits
> per second or
> 188.47656K per second.
> >
> > So based on that a 1Meg file would take 5.4330363 seconds (IDEALLY)
> >
> >
> > 4On Wed, 03 May 2000 18:38:18 Info wrote:
> > > 8 bits to 1 byte correct?
> > >
> > > So a T-1 equals 1544 bits?
> > >
> > > So a 1megabyte file would take roughly one minute and 28
> seconds to
> > > download, correct?
> > >
> > > I know I am getting confused somewhere here, could
> someone help me out?
> > >
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