--------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Mark Lasarko" To: Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:10:12 -0500 Subject: Re: Bandwidth on interface Here's my best explanation... 1000000 bytes equals: 8000000 bits or 1000000 bytes or 976.562 kilobytes (KB) or .9537 megabytes (MB) whereas 1 megabyte equals: 8388608 bits or 1048576 bytes or 1024 kilobytes (KB) or 1 megabytes (MB) Confused yet? Don't worry a lot of people, many with their #'s, still are :) I have seen this often misinterpreted and/or otherwise misunderstood. See, data file size is measured in binary. This uses the binary number system, which is counted by factors of two... (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc) And the nearest binary number to 1,000 is 2^10 or 1,024; Therefore 1,024 bytes was named a Kilobyte. At the end of the day, though a metric "kilo" equals 1,000 (1 kilogram = 1,000 grams); A binary "Kilo" is actually 1,024 bytes. (1000 does compute using "2^X") Meanwhile, in regards to the T1 bandwidth... (1) T1 = 1536 kbps = 24 timeslots with 64k each The additional 8kbps is for overhead.