If I have a 10Mbit connection, then how many kB/s if maxed out

[tweakz]

Thanks 4 da break down.....Melvinmeow

[fstemon]

Bandwidth is often sold in SI units rather than binary units.

10mb/s would then be 10*1000*1000 / 8 = 1250000 = 1250KB/s = 1.25MB/s.
Either measurement will always have 10mb as 1.25MB (10/8), whether you use 1000 or 1024.

10Mbps = 10 million bits per second = 10,000,000bps / 8 bits = 1,250,000 bytes per sec / (1024*1024) = 1.19MB/s

[tweakz]

Thanks, but I get It now.

[rvt]

There are a few companies in the sticks of nevada that also do up to 50mbit for home users. (No idea why they would need that kinda speeds in the sticks but hey whatever floats your boat.)

Probably due to the rollout costs and the amount of takeup.
If you spend a fortune laying cable out to hicksville, prices per customer are going to be higher, but there will also be a hell of a lot more capacity on those lines than there would be in say, NY.
If you can sell 50mb/s to someone out there, you don't have so much unused capacity and you can recoup more of your initial costs.

[gamer4eva]

i think 100mbit is 1280KB/s! so /10 to get for 10mbit.

[rvt]

10Mbps = 10 million bits per second = 10,000,000bps / 8 bits = 1,250,000 bytes per sec / (1024*1024) = 1.19MB/s

That calculation converts SI to binary. What you actually have at the end there is 1.19MiB/s (mebibytes or mega binary bytes).
1250000 SI bytes is 1.25 SI MB.

[saulin]

10mbit = 1,250 k as a few people already mentioned.
If you maxed the line 24/7 you can do roughly 3.6TB of transfer a month incoming and outgoing.
5mbit is not top of the line in U.S. Ive seen several companies who offer better speeds than that.
Comcast, Cox, GayOL (AOL), Verizon, being a few of them. There are a few companies in the sticks of nevada that also do up to 50mbit for home users. (No idea why they would need that kinda speeds in the sticks but hey whatever floats your boat.)

I remote to people's PCs every day at work and I'm so jealous when I see speeds of 2-3MB/s in the states and they pay about the same as me.

I have a 10Mbit connection and I get 1.2MB/s all the time from Newsgroups but damn 2-3MB/s would be just too sweet. To get me a 25Mbit connection through my ISP it would cost me about $101.95/mo