Broadband Forum

In this forum a lot of posters seem misinformed about KBps and kbps.
the most important thing is,

1 [B]KB[/B]ps = 8 [B]kb[/B]ps

The Capital KB stands for kilo[B]bytes[/B], while the small kb stands for kilo[B]bits[/B]. These two terms are required due the the way computers are designed.
Hardware and advertisers will show kilobits but software shows kilobytes.

When people say that they have a 2 mbps connection, they actually mean that they have a 256 KBps connection. How did I get this?
2 mbps = 2048 kbps (1 mb =1024 kb or 2^10 KB)
2048 kbps / 8 = 256 KBps.
When you use the internet, the maximum possible speed you can get is this last number.

When you call up customer care or ask a shop keeper, they will usually tell you that download speeds and browsing speeds are different. They are wrong, both browsing speed and download speed are subject to a maximum which is the connection speed, in this example 256 KBps.