Anybody please advise of a site which has a table of how many gigs per month equals how many kbs/second?

Thanks

Use the following formula:

(GB/month) = 2592000 * (KB/sec) / 1048576

or, if you prefer kilo bits:

(GB/month) = 2592000 * (Kbps) / 8 / 1048576

As a rule of thumb, you can safely consider 32kbps to be equal to 10GB/mo. Hence, 128kbps would be equal to 40GB/mo. The error in this calculation is pretty small, around 1-2% only.

Note, however, this is overestimating the true data transfer by another 10-20% since every data packet sent over the net will have its own header/information/overhead (where the traffic is going, etc) that will also eat up your bandwith.

cheers,
:beer:

A businesses associates webiste has had 140gig (yes) transfer on his site in 8days.

Am trying to work out the amount of bandwidth per second.

1/2 mb per second?

It's a DDoS or something, which we're tracing.

REgards

Assuming this 140GB of data transfer is measured using actual measurement (via webalizer, etc). Then 140GB in 8 days .... meaning (if the trend continues) about 540 GB/mo ... so that's about at 1.7mbps on capped connection... But it's very likely you will be charged more than 1.7mbps if your connectivity is neither throttled/capped (burstable) and furthermore, if you are being charged using average method/95th percentile ...

In a DOS attack, usually (if you see your MRTG graph) the incoming traffic (to your server) will overwhelmed the outgoing traffic (from your server).

cheers,
:beer:

I have always found some great information here Help With Hosting (http://helpwithhosting.com)

There is a lot of beginner stuff but there are great explainations of common terms and how to convert gigs into secs.

Originally posted by priyadi
(GB/month) = 2592000 * (KB/sec) / 1048576


s/1048576/1000000/g

A 1Mbps connection transfers 1 million bits per second. Not 1048576; a T1 carries 1.544 Mbps, ie 1544000 bits per second (not 1.544*1048576 bps). 100Mbps ethernet carries 10^8 bps, not 10^2*2^20 bps.

Bandwidth is measured using powers-of-ten SI prefixes, not with powers of two.

Thanks.

Just what I was looking for.

CONNECTION SPEED Daily Traffic
ISDN1 / DS-0 64 Kb/sec 559.96Mb
ISDN2 128 Kb/sec 1.106Gb
2way Satellite upload 150 Kb/sec 1.296Gb
Fixed Wireless upload 256 Kb/sec 2.211Gb
G.lite ADSL upload 384 Kb/sec 3.318Gb
2way Satellite download 500 Kb/sec 4.320Gb
ADSL upload 768 Kb/sec 6.637Gb
G.lite ADSL download 1.5 Mb/sec 12.960Gb
T1 / DS1 1.544 Mb/sec 13.340Gb
E1 / DS1 2.048 Mb/sec 17.695Gb
Fixed Wireless download 5 Mb/sec 43.200Gb
ADSL download 6.144 Mb/sec 53.084Gb
T2 / DS2 6.312 Mb/sec 54.536Gb
E2 8.448 Mb/sec 72.991Gb
Cable upload 10 Mb/sec 86.400Gb
Cable download 27 Mb/sec 233.280Gb
E3 34.368 Mb/sec 296.939Gb
T3 / DS3 44.736 Mb/sec 386.519Gb
OC1 51.48 Mb/sec 444.787Gb
OC3 155.52 Mb/sec 1.344Tb
T4 / DS4 274.76 Mb/sec 2.374Tb
OC9 466.56 Mb/sec 4.031Tb
OC12 622.08 Mb/sec 5.375Tb
OC18 933.12 Mb/sec 8.062Tb
OC24 1.244 Gb/sec 10.748Tb
OC36 1.866 Gb/sec 16.122Tb
OC48 2.488 Gb/sec 21.496Tb
OC96 4.976 Gb/sec 42.993Tb
OC192 9.952 Gb/sec 85.968Tb
OC255 13.271 Gb/sec 114.661Tb
OC768 39,813 Gb/sec 343.984Tb

Originally posted by hypernatic.net
CONNECTION SPEED Daily Traffic
Lest anyone be mislead, note that the Daily Traffic figures listed above are in gigaBITS; divide by 8 to get the values in bytes.

Originally posted by thednt
A businesses associates webiste has had 140gig (yes) transfer on his site in 8days.

Am trying to work out the amount of bandwidth per second.

1/2 mb per second?

It's a DDoS or something, which we're tracing.

REgards

I hope he's not billed at 95th percentile :-/