Re: A89: Me distributing roms.


[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]

Re: A89: Me distributing roms.




Theoretical throughput though... not taking into account overhead bits and
compression.  Also, I've read some places that K means 1000 and k means 1024.

Bryan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miles Raymond" <m_rayman@bigfoot.com>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 12:12 AM
Subject: Re: A89: Me distributing roms.


>
> A few things.  A 56Kbps modem is not the same as a 5.6KBps modem.
>
> b = bit
> B = byte
> K = kilo
> M = mega
> G = giga
> p = per
> s = second
>
> 8b = 1B
> 1024B = 1KB
> 1024KB = 1MB
> 1024MB = 1GB
>
> 8Kb = 8192b = 1024B = 1KB
> 8Kbps = 1KBps
> 56Kbps = 7KBps
>
> A 1mbit cable line would NOT be 100kilobytes per second, but rather 1024Kbps
> (kilobits per second), or 128KBps (kilobytes per second).
>
> > I may not know how to do anything but hello world in asm but networking I
> do
> > know =]
>
> Maybe you should get to know it a little better then...
>
> -Miles Raymond      EML: m_rayman@bigfoot.com
> ICQ: 13217756       IRC: Killer2        AIM: kilier2
> http://www.bigfoot.com/~m_rayman
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Serial" <Serial@earthlink.net>
> To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 8:09 PM
> Subject: RE: A89: Me distributing roms.
>
> > I believe his math is wrong. The OC256 that at&t is laying across the
> > atlantic to connect the 2 continents is a 2 gbit line which would roughly
> be
> > ~200meg/s
> > the quick conversion for (g)(m)(k)bits/s is to just add 2 zero's and
> reduce
> > to a lower letter if nessessary.
> > for example. a 56kbit modem like an x2 is really 5.6 kilobytes max
> > downstream
> > and a 384k/s downstream dsl would be ~38.4 kilobytes /s
> > a 1mbit cable line would be 100kilobytes per second. etc.
> > I may not know how to do anything but hello world in asm but networking I
> do
> > know =]
>
>
>



Follow-Ups: References: