-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Wireless

  • From: "Sandi Beach" <sandib2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:53:25 -0500

Thanks, G, for the explanation.  I did not know that.
Sandi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 7:24 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Wireless


> Actually, this is a touchy subject because different folks have different
> abbreviations for these things and I've seen people arguing over it who 
> were
> on the same side of the issue.     lol
>
> Officially, KB stands for KiloByte while kb is the abbreviation for 
> kilobit.
> The HUGE difference is between the meaning of a bit verses a byte.
> Unfortunately, a lot of folks, including me, are usually lazy and only
> capitalize the first letter to indicate the difference, and that usually
> just leads to even more confusion.
>
>
> So, let's talk bits & bytes:
> A bit is a term representing a single binary state which can be either a 0
> or a 1.  In physical terms, it represents the presence or absence of 
> voltage
> within a component (usually a transistor) at any given moment.  If there 
> is
> sufficient voltage, it's considered to be a '1'.  If there is not enough
> voltage (or no voltage at all), it's viewed as a '0'.
>
> A byte is an 8-bit stream of these bits.  In other words, it takes 8 bits 
> to
> equal a byte.  Every alphanumerical character within this email represents 
> a
> single byte, including the spaces between the words.  To represent these
> characters in binary form, electronic systems designers devised a table 
> that
> has been adopted worldwide and an example of the alphabet conversions can 
> be
> seen in the link below.
>
> http://www.tekmom.com/buzzwords/binaryalphabet.html
>
> So, to fully answer your question, a byte is 8 times the size of a bit. 
> So
> 1KB = 8kb.  If your speed results show that you are getting 1000kb, you 
> may
> want to do the math to see how it's represented in KB's.  1000kbps/8 =
> 125KBps.
>
> Peace,
> Gman
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"

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