Depending upon the application,
bandwidth is measured in one of two terms, bits per second (bps) and
bytes per second (Bps). The notation of bytes per second typically has a
capital 'B' to establish it is the term of greater value in that 8 bits
are equal to 1 byte. Below is a reference chart to help make the
conversion if you are not quite sure how to calculate this.
Please note: The theoretical maximum
throughput that can be transferred across the line may not be
representative of the speed you see when downloading files from the
Internet. There are many things that will cause less than the
theoretical maximum speed such as protocol, framing and application
overhead in addition to latency over wide geographic distances.
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