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Old 03-14-2008, 09:05 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Requesting help with download speeds

Hello kind sirs,i wanted to ask upon all of you if maybe one of you could help me out with something.i`m using utorrent to download something and i can use a progam to speed it up and i know i got 500KBS download speed but this progam forces me to select the speed in kbs kilobits as KB`S are kilobytes does any of you know how many kilobits 500 kilobyts are? thanks in advance for reading.
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Old 03-14-2008, 09:21 PM   #2 (permalink)
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oh lol wait

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http://www.unitconversion.org/data-s...onversion.html

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte

and there you go, maybe that will help you.
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Old 03-14-2008, 10:22 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Go learn some science . This is what you learn in 8th grade.
500kb => .5mb
So downloading at 500kb/s is very fast. That means you are getting 30megabytes per minute.
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Old 03-14-2008, 11:00 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Go learn some science . This is what you learn in 8th grade.
500kb => .5mb
So downloading at 500kb/s is very fast. That means you are getting 30megabytes per minute.
He was talking about the Diference between kB and kb *notice capitals/no capitals on the b*
There diferent things lol.
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