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Old 03-02-2005, 11:51 PM
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Originally Posted by miles202
I got a question, could someone please exlpain the different between bits and bytes. I know that "B" is for bytes and "b" is for bits
1 Byte contains 8 bits

A Kilobit is one thousand bits. It is used to measure the amount of data transferred per second. Kilobits per second is shortened to kb/s, Kbps or kbps (as opposed to KBps, which is Kilobytes per second. Note the capitalization). The lowercase b is commonly used to denote bits, while the uppercase B is used for bytes.

1 kb/s = 1000 bits per second
1 KB/s = 1024 bytes per second
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