Often there is confusion in the interpretation of the tariff rate in packets. Rate specified in the rates measured in bits (bit) (as traditionally indicated speed of any information networks), but most programs (all browsers, Download Master and his ilk program, Torrent clients) when downloading from the web show speed in bytes ( byte), and it is clear that all the same amount of information measured in bytes / kilobytes / megabytes.

Conversion of units:
8 bits (bit) = 1 byte (byte)
1024 bytes (byte) = 1 Kilobyte (Kbyte or Kb)
1024 kilobytes (Kb) = 1 Megabyte (Mb)
1024 Megabytes (Mb) = 1 Gigabyte (Gb)

100 kilobits / sec ("Kbit / c" or "kbps") = 100/10 bit = 10 KB / sec *

so

1 Megabit / second ("Mbit / c" or "mbps") = 1024 (Kylobita) / 10 bits = 102.4 KB / sec

* Although we know that 1 byte = 8 bits, for a long time divided into 10, so that the transmission network should be considered as starting and stopovyy bits.

Therefore beginners in IT technologies are often confused with kilobit kilobytes, waiting for the speed of 256 Kbytes / c of the channel 256 Kbit / c.

It should be noted that the telecommunications assumed that kilobits is 1000bit.

If you check the speed of injection on your computer, it still does not respond, and consider the option that the remote site (where you download the file) may be slow to give you the information (below the maximum speed of your fare).

For those who are too lazy to read (when downloading the same DownloadMaster, FlashGet, any browser, torrent-clients), the estimated peak velocity, which shows the pumping program (speed can also depend on the site from which you are working out details): *

64 = 6.0 - 6.2 (kilobytes / sec)
128 = 12.0 - 12.8 (kilobytes / sec)
256 = 25.0 - 25.6 (kilobytes / sec)
512 = 50.0 - 51.2 (kilobytes / sec)
1024 = 100.0 - 102.3 (kilobytes / sec)
2048 = 200.0 - 204.5 (kilobytes / sec)

* Means the speed of a flow of information (1 injection) and the conditions under which you are not simultaneously downloading your online channel opening pages, additional injection, etc. If it will be 2, 3, etc. The simultaneous injection information, the rate of share for each stream, about equally.