Bandwidth

[wjleong]

Hi,
Can someone tell me the monthly tranfer for:
10Mbits dedicated connection
10Mbps connection
And what't the differences between this?

Thank you.

[wmghori]

10Mbits dedicated connection
10Mbps connection

same thing

Generally - Bits are used to talk about data transfer rates (1 kilobit = 1000 bits), while bytes are used to talk about storage size calculations (1 kilobyte = 1024 bytes). So when your ISP offers you a 1Mb connection, its megaBits not MegaBytes. So for a rough guide of how MUCH you can download, divide by eight. i.e. 1Mb speed = 128KB of data.

It takes eight megabits to equal one megabyte.

1.5Mb (Megabits) or 187.5KB (Kilobytes)
2.0Mb (Megabits) or 250KB (Kilobytes)
3.0Mb (Megabits) or 375KB (Kilobytes)
so on and so on

[Guest]

A 10Mbits dedicated connection implies that you are the only person on this connection. You have complete access to every bit of bandwidth that wmghori mentioned.
A 10Mbps connection seems to be a connection that is shared with other users, so you don't necessarily get all of the bandwidth.