This is a simple table to show the comparison of "bits" vs "bytes". Most ISP advertise bandwidth in "kbps" (kilo bits per second) while most applications show bandwidth in "kb/s" (kilo bytes per second). So when you pay for 512 kbps you know why your downloads never go faster than about 60 kb/s now you know why.
| Giga BIT | Mega BIT | Kilo BIT | Kilo BYTE | Mega BYTE | |
| 8 | 1 | ||||
| 56 kbps (dial up) | 56 | 7 | |||
| 256 kbps | 256 | 32 | |||
| 512 kbps | 0.5 | 512 | 64 | ||
| 768 kbps | 768 | 96 | |||
| 800 kbps | 800 | 100 | |||
| 1 Mbit | 1 | 1024 | 128 | ||
| 4 Mbit | 4 | 4096 | 512 | ||
| 5 Mbit | 5 | 5120 | 640 | ||
| 10 Mbit | 10 | 10240 | 1280 | 1.25 | |
| 100 Mbit | 100 | 102400 | 12800 | 12.5 | |
| Giga Bit | 1 | 1024 | 1048576 | 131072 | 128 |
This second table is to help show the comparison of 1000 to 1024. Most hard drive manufactures advertise a 200 gig hard drive that has 200000000000 bytes while windows identifies it as around 186 gigs. Where did the other 14 gigs go?
| Tera Bytes | Giga Bytes | Mega Bytes | Kilo Bytes | Bytes | Bits |
| 1 | 8 | ||||
| 1 | 1024 | 8192 | |||
| 1 | 1024 | 1048576 | 8388608 | ||
| 0.931 | 953.67 | 976562.5 | 1000000000 | 8000000000 | |
| 1 | 1024 | 1048576 | 1073741824 | 8589934592 | |
| 37.25 | 38146.9 | 39062500 | 40000000000 | 320000000000 | |
| 40 | 40960 | 41943040 | 42949672960 | 343597383680 | |
| 186.26 | 190734.8 | 195312500 | 200000000000 | 1600000000000 | |
| 200 | 204800 | 209715200 | 214748364800 | 1717986918400 | |
| 1 | 1024 | 1048576 | 1073741824 | 1099511627776 | 8796093022208 |
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