10 MBPS / 100 MBPS bandwidth

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by playboy18, Jan 13, 2010.

  1. #1
    hello


    what means this :

    1 MBPS = xx GB bandwidth
    5 MBPS = xx GB bandwidth
    10 MBPS = xx GB bandwidth
    100 MBPS = xx GB bandwidth

    thanks
     
    playboy18, Jan 13, 2010 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Assuming you are saturating your connection 24/7, a 1 Mbit connection can pass 10.8GB per 24 hours.
     
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  3. RonBrown

    RonBrown Well-Known Member

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    Also, Mbps (Megabits per second) which is how most people measure bandwidth is completely different from MBps (Megabytes per second) by a factor of 8.

    To calculate...

    Megabits per second = 1024bits per second.

    To calculate the maximum amount of data that could travel on this line in 24 hours we do the following calculation....

    1024 (bits per second) x 60 (seconds in a minute) x 60 (minutes in an hour) x 24 hours in a day = 88473600 bits.



    Everyone is used to thinking in terms of MB(MegaBYTES) or GB (GigaBYTES) so we need to convert that to a format that is more familiar. There are 8 bits in a byte. So....

    88473600/8 = 11059200 bytes

    To convert that to MB, divide by 1024 because there are 1024 bytes in a megabyte....

    11059200/1024 = 10800MB

    Convert that to GB. There are 1024MB in 1GB.

    10800/1024 = 10.54687GB

    So, a 1Mbps line can transfer 10.54687GB of data in 24 hours at full utilization.


    Hope that makes sense.
     
    RonBrown, Jan 15, 2010 IP