Re: difference bet Kbps and KB/sec
 

Even I found these explanations a little confusing, and some of the information isn't quite right, so I'll make it simple:

KBPS (MBPS,GBPS)= kiloybits (megabits, gigabits) per second, this is used to measure bandwidth in connection speeds in internet connections, network speed, or transfer speed of local storage.

KB/s (MB/s, GB/s)= Kilobytes/Second. This is used to measure downloads BECAUSE the file you're downloading is measured in bytes not bits. This allows you to understand the progress without doing conversion.

1 kilobyte is 8 kilobytes, so if you have a 64kbps you'll be able to download 8 kilobytes per second (today 8mbps = 1mb/s is more relevant).

I just noticed that this was bumped from a VERY old post, but I'm already done typing so I'm going to hit reply...

i have an wireless internet connection of 2.4M
and i test the download and it .66Mb/s
i want to know the relation and how to calculate the downlaod and the transfer rate

As previously stated the ratio is 8bits to one Byte. To estimate your connection speed in MB/s take the MBPS speed and divide by 8 (2.4mbps/8=.3mb/s).

.66 is higher than you should be getting, but sometimes you do get better than advertised speed. My home connection is supposed to be 18mbps and I routinely get close to 30.

Hi it means kilobit per second .
How ever i have 256 Kbps link my speeds are

download 0.24Mbps / 249kbps
upload 0.12Mbps / 139 kbps

a local 256 link shared service speed should be ?

1 kb/s = 1000 bits per second
1 KB/s = 1024 bytes per second

A Kilobit is one thousand bits. It is used to measure the amount of data transferred per second. Kilobits per second is shortened to kb/s, Kbps or kbps (as opposed to KBps, which is Kilobytes per second. Note the capitalization). The lowercase b is commonly used to denote bits, while the uppercase B is used for bytes.