How to translate kilobits (Kb) to Kilobytes (KB)
To begin to understand how bandwidth is measured, you must understand that in its basic form, data is simply zeros and ones. Each zero or one is commonly referred to as a bit. This is common terminology when measuring the speed of a data connection.
Consider that a 368kbps connection is equivalent to a 368000 bit per second connection.
When you are using your browser of file transfer software, you receive a measurement in ‘KB/s’ (Kilo-Bytes-Per-Second). In order to get ‘kbps’ (kilo-bits-per-second) you have to perform a simple calculation.
Remember there are 8 bits in a byte and 1024 bytes in a kilobyte.
Therefore:
368000 bits \ 8 = 46000 bytes
46000 bytes \ 1024 = 44.921 Kilobytes.