Mbps vs kbits/s

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jd45321
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Mbps vs kbits/s

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Speedtest.net show my connection about 29.8 Mbps. How does that convert to kbits/s for "Total Download Bandwidth:" setting? I.e. what should I put in this field?

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Re: Mbps vs kbits/s

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A megabit is 1000 kilobits*

*technically 1024.

So if you enter 29800 it will be fine but technically it's 30515.
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Re: Mbps vs kbits/s

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The formula to convert from Kilobits per second to Megabits per second is:
Megabits per second = Kilobits per second ÷ 1,000

The formula to convert from Megabits per second to Kilobits per second is:
Kilobits per second = Megabits per second x 1,000

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This is probably one of my pet hates in the Gargoyle UI, the inconsistency with using kbps and kbit/s and kBytes/s for labelling. I'd really prefer if 1 of the 3 different methods was used consistently within Quota's, UPnP, Class Minimum and Class Maximum and the Service Classes list.
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Re: Mbps vs kbits/s

Post by foxyboy »

+1, Its very confusing and irritating,

Any chance of standarizing these folks ?

This online conversion calc does a very good job
http://toolstud.io/data/bandwidth.php

and this site will average your up/down speeds over 12hours automatically
http://testmy.net/auto?extraID=A&schTyp ... S=&minUFS=
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Re: Mbps vs kbits/s

Post by nworbnhoj »

@encro & @ foxyboy

Could you both contribute to this thread please

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/phpbb/vi ... f=5&t=8256
Can you help someone else get Gargoyle up and running?
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