how much bandwidth does it use?
 

If i had 50 users using 24kbps, what would the bandwidth usage in megabytes be after 1 hour of full use. I always get confused with kilobits and bytes so please type the whole word. Also, please explain to me how you came up with your answer. Thank you,

Justinwww.thehostingspot.com

50x24=1200 kilobits ps
x60 seconds = 72000 kilobits
x60 minutes = 4320000 kilobits
/8 to get kilobytes = 540000
/1024 to get megabytes = 527.34

So you'd need around 527MB per hour of bandwith to service 50 people at 24kbps...

Or....per month....you would need 379440 MB of bandwidth.

4446.5625 GB per year....Numbers are scary.

or 4.34234619140625 terabytes per year... :)

*check my avatar* :)

....terabytes...never heard of those :\

terabytes are the next step up past a gigabyte. it goes like this
byte 10^1
kilobyte 10^3
megabyte 10^6
gigabyte 10^9
treabyte 10^12
pentabyte 10^15
there are more, but I can't remember the names

ya forgot bit before byte ;)

Btw, on the topic of bandwith, 1200kbps is a shitload for a home connection. I doubt you'd get that sort of constant upload transfer rate cheap.

yes, but I have 3 fiber optic lines and just built a brand new server to run the shoutcast clients from. If you need help email me at support@thehostingspot.com We just went public so the webpage is not 100% done but the actual server is setup.

Can i just ask a quick question...If you can build a server, and setup a shoutcast client and webpage, and have a support email adress, why did you need help with a fairly simple equation?? :confused:

kilo- k or K 10^3
mega- M 10^6
giga- G 10^9
tera- T 10^12
peta- P 10^15
exa- E 10^18
zetta- Z 10^21
yotta- Y 10^24

because I am human and my figures were right but seemed very high. I thought the bandwidth would be lowers. sorry

not a treky/Treker huh:D

I want a 1 yottabyte hard drive

send me $8,500,500,500,999.99

and i will send a 1 yottabyte hard drive. :)

how far off do you think yottabytes really are? i know that Direct Connect (file-sharing) boasts that it will be the first to reach one petabyte of files shared.

thoughts, feelings?

I want a 1,000 Gigaquad hard drive.

Gigaquad = 1 billion quadrillion bytes

billion * quadrillion = 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes

100000000000000000000000000 * 1000 = 100000000000000000000000000000 bytes

100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes = 100,000 Yottabytes.

Mmmm...

They are incorrect. The Kazaa/Grokster/whatever network has had over a petabyte of files shared for several months now. It usually has around 1.5 petabytes now, but I've seen up to 1.8.

Edit: Unless they were saying that ALL DC hubs total would have 1 petabyte before anything else, in which case I would believe that they'd reached a petabyte before Kazaa

Thank you. I was going to have to go look it up to correct BMWBoy. :D

Hehe. Those are some large numbers.

A nyble ;)