Re: [cobalt-users] Bandwidth Calculations?

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Footballist " <footballist@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> According to your below example, if my traffic is calculated to be 382
> kilobits per second, does this number (382) get multiplied by the number
> of seconds per month or what?
>
> Anohter words, with my service, I have about 50 Gig of monthly bandwidth.
>  Anything over that I will be charged extra.

Based on that, I'd say your service does not charge you based on bandwidth,
but rather traffic.  Bandwidth is a rate (bits per second) and traffic is an
amount (gigabytes).  An analogy would be miles per hour and miles - the
first is a rate, the second is an amount.  Determining what you'll pay is
simpler b/c it's based on an amount, not usage patterns every 5 minutes,
throwing away the top 5% of the points measured and charging for the highest
value left.

> So how would 382 kilobits per second translate n Gig per month????

Well, if you're curious what the calculation is, you need to know that there
are 8 bits in a byte.  To turn kilobits into gigabytes divide by 8*(1024)^2.
Then you just need to multiply by the # of seconds in a month.

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Steve Werby
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