I'm confused. I know about Megabits, kilobits and bytes but at the bottom of the Tixati program where it shows download speed is XX.XX KB/s is that kilobytes or kilobits or something else?> the reason I'm asking is because when I limit the bandwith to 10000 KB's on the bandwith tab it only downloads up to 40KBs so where am i lost in translation?

The norm is that the case of the B decides.  small b is bits and cap B is bytes

As to the limits YOU set, you are setting a cap. Your ISP and other peers may not allow or have the capacity to reach that.

10000 KB/s = 80000 kb/s = 80mb/s
Does your ISP provide you with 80 mb/s DL speed?


40KB/s is 320 kb/s
Again, what level of service are you subscribed to with your ISP?
What are the results of a bandwidth speedtest with everything except your browser turned off?

50 Mbps

Plus I'm on a VPN so I am really only getting 10-15 Mbps

so assuming I have a 10 Mbps connection I am setting a limit of 7 Mbps that would be 7000 KB but every time I do that it still maxes out at about 40-80 KB/s AND as soon as i turn off the limit it jumps up to 400 KB and more

You're off by a factor of 10

For 7Mbps set the throttle to 700 KB

Conversion of bit (little b) to Bytes (Big B) is done by a factor of 8.

If you want to convert 7Mbps to MBps, you divide the Mbps number by 8.

7Mbps / 8 = 0.875MBps. That means you'll want to do 0.875MBps.

Multiply that by 1000 to get that number in KBps

0.875MBps * 1000 = 875 KBps

http://forum.tixati.com/support/1908/

This is how I finally understanding it.

I only wish devs would change the units from KB/MB to Kb/Mb. the unit change makes it more easily understood with the larger number and makes you more confident with you bandwidth. This is why ISPs use b instead of B.


But slow speed is a big problem.  I believe my ISP throttles out going speeds so ptp gets messed up.

Yea can we please switch Tixati to display units in bandwidth figures
kilobits, megabits per second please

this issue had created enough confusion now


thankyou