D-Link Blog Home » KBps http://www.dlink.cc Helps you to solve D-Link network problems. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:50:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 What is the difference between KBps and Kbps? http://www.dlink.cc/knowledgebase/what-is-the-difference-between-kbps-and-kbps.html http://www.dlink.cc/knowledgebase/what-is-the-difference-between-kbps-and-kbps.html#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:45:09 +0000 Dlink.cc http://www.dlink.cc/?p=652 I am often asked the difference between KBps and Kbps,here is the answer:

In data communications 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.

bit: minimum unit that handles a computer. (zero a one).
byte: it is a set of 8 bits and represents a character.
bps: (bit per seconds) unit of measurement of information transference.
bytes/s: (bytes per seconds) unit of measurement of transference of information in byte per second.

1 KB/s = 1024 bytes per second
1 kb/s = 1000 bits per second
1024 kb = 1 mb (megabyte)

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