Mostly People gets confused about Internet plan e.g 1Mbps data speed actually get a download speed of 80-100kbps. What’s the Secrete behind download speed.
Over a network , digital data are transferred in Bit, Bytes and their super-sets (KiloBytes(KB), MegaBytes(MB)). A bit is a smallest single data value (either ‘1’ or ‘0’) and a byte is a collection of 8 bits (1 Byte=8 Bits). Following is the data conversion table over a computer network.
- 1 bit = 1 or 0 (b)
- 4 bits = 1 nybble
- 8 bits = 1 byte (B)
- 1024 bytes = 1 Kilobyte (KB)
- 1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte (MB)
- 1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte (GB)
- 1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte (TB)
When people calculate their Internet speed, they often get confused between bits and bytes. Usually the Internet download speed is denoted in mega bits per second (Mbps).Please note that the difference of small and capital letters in the speed denominations can actually make huge difference. For example, Mbps is megabits per second whereas MBps is megabytes per second. Capital B is used to denote Bytes not Bits.
Internet speed denoted at 1Mbps means MegaBits/second data transfer speed that is equal to 1000kilobits/second and also equals to 125kilobytes/second. At this speed time to download 1 MegaByte would be 8-10 seconds and to download 1GB would be 130-135 minutes or 2.2 hours.
The speed of 1Mbps, 125KBps is the absolute maximum data speed that you can possibly get, but in most of the cases this speed probably will be lower, depending on the network connections and other factors.