In data communications, a kilobit is a thousand bits (1,000) bits. It's commonly used for measuring the amount of data that is transferred in a second between two points. Kilobits per second is usually shortened to Kbps (or kbps). For example, 64kbps is 64,000 bits per second.
1 kb/s = 1000 b/s
1 KB/s = 1024 B/s
1 KB/s = 8.192 kb/s
1 kb/s = .1221 KB/s
The lowercase b usually stands for bits while the uppercase B stands for bytes.
To find your theoretical download speed for your line, divide your advertised speed by
64kbps / 8.192 = 7.8125 KB/sor by 10 to include overhead:
64kbps / 10 = 6.4 KB/s
| International Electrotechnical Commission Standard |
| bit |
bit |
0 or 1 |
| byte |
B |
8 bits |
| kibibit |
Kibit |
1024 bits |
| kilobit |
kbit |
1000 bits |
| kibibyte (binary) |
KiB |
1024 bytes |
| kilobyte (decimal) |
kB |
1000 bytes |
| megabit |
Mbit |
1000 kilobits |
| mebibyte (binary) |
MiB |
1024 kibibytes |
| megabyte (decimal) |
MB |
1000 kilobytes |
| gigabit |
Gbit |
1000 megabits |
| gibibyte (binary) |
GiB |
1024 mebibytes |
| gigabyte (decimal) |
GB |
1000 megabytes |
| terabit |
Tbit |
1000 gigabits |
| tebibyte (binary) |
TiB |
1024 gibibytes |
| terabyte (decimal) |
TB |
1000 gigabytes |
| petabit |
Pbit |
1000 terabits |
| pebibyte (binary) |
PiB |
1024 tebibytes |
| petabyte (decimal) |
PB |
1000 terabytes |
| exabit |
Ebit |
1000 petabits |
| exbibyte (binary) |
EiB |
1024 pebibytes |
| exabyte (decimal) |
EB |
1000 petabytes |
