K is 1000 or 1024 in my 100Mbs LAN?
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K is 1000 or 1024 in my 100Mbs LAN?
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suppose to be 1024 Kbps = 1024*1024 bps
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Kbps / kbps, Mbps, Gbps
Definition: One kilobit per second (Kbps) equals 1000 bits per second (bps). Kbps is also written as "kbps" that carries the same meaning. Likewise, one megabit per second (Mbps) equals one million bps and one Gigabit equals one billion bps.
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Nope - for transmission rates K is 1 000, M is 1 000 000 and G is 1 000
000 000. This is an occasion when Wikipedia gets it right:Sam
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Yes.
Sam
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IIRC this at one time appeared to confuse an engineer at Cisco with the result that the PA-4T which was expected to drive
4 x E1s at 2.048Mbps each was in fact limited to 8Mbps in total.The PA-4T+ fixed it (again IIRC).
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Turns out that's wrong with respect to KB, MB and GB - that is it's strictly correct for those who want to use SI prefixes consistently but doesn't reflect what happens in the real world!
Sam
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Except that an E1 2.048Mbps link is commonly referred to as 2Mbps, which it's not - that's just an approximation. It's not 2*1024*1024Mbps either!
Sam
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It would be helpful if
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the norm so there wasn't any question in what was meant.
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That is good. Thanks. People will laugh though, I certainly did when trying to pronounce them, No "April 1" dates anywhere?
Very nuch needed.