40 Gbits download rate

ssjninjamonkey · 13 Jul 2007 at 10:51

Is this conversion correct ?

40 gb is 40,000,000,000

Divided by 8 brings you to 5,000,000,000 bytes

Divided by 1024 brings you to 4882812.5 k/bytes

Divided by 1024 again brings you to 4768.37158203125 M/bytes

Divided again to bring you to 4.656612873077392578125 g/bytes

which means divided by 10 is 0.4656612873077392578125

download speed is around 465 MB a second ?

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Sorry if this is all incorrect ^^

dbailey10 · 13 Jul 2007 at 10:55

try http://www.matisse.net/bitcalc/?input_amount=40&input_units=gigabits&notation=legacy

ssjninjamonkey · 13 Jul 2007 at 10:59

Well I was way off there then O_O thanks

Edit.....

Oh I was correct, wtill does not clear up the download rate though

tolien · 13 Jul 2007 at 11:03

40 Gbps = 5 GB/s.

If you want to do it the long way, these bits are wrong:

which means divided by 10 is 0.4656612873077392578125

download speed is around 465 MB a second ?

40 gb is 40,000,000,000

You need to either use powers of 10 or powers of 2, and stick with it all the way. If you're going to divide by 1024 later, then 40Gbps = 42949672960 bps, which then divides back down to 5GB/s.

You had already went past MB/s:

Divided by 1024 again brings you to 4768.37158203125 M/bytes

ssjninjamonkey · 13 Jul 2007 at 11:09

My math has always been screwy cheers

Not that I get it now... lol

ssjninjamonkey · 13 Jul 2007 at 11:21

42949672960 kb is around 5 TB not gb I'm sure of it :confused:

tolien · 13 Jul 2007 at 11:22

Stray k. Should be bps, not kbps.

ssjninjamonkey · 13 Jul 2007 at 11:27

I get it now worked back on the calculations and I get how it works now

cheers