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[CriticalFIX]

Greetings All,

How much bandwidth is 1.5 Mbs in GBs?

Thank you.

[Toolz]

Neglibible: Simple answer is .0015; some would say a tad less.

[RH Robert]

If you are talking about having a dedicated T1 (1.544) line to your server, it is able to push around 350 GB of data in a month, if running at capacity 24/7 for the whole month, but it is only burstable to 1.54 Mb per second. Many dedicated server companies provide 350 - 500 GB of data transfer per month at a cost less than a dedicated T1, and burstable to 10 or even 100Mb in some cases. Hope this is what you were really asking for.

[Wulex]

same as 1.5 mb in space

[alapo]

Originally posted by Lord
same as 1.5 mb in space

[sprintserve]

He's talking about Mbits/s of transfers and not Mbytes in harddisk I am sure.

1.5MBit/s is about 450GB. It's a tad more theoretically. But it's thereabouts

[alapo]

Originally posted by sprintserve
1.5MBit/s is about 450GB. It's a tad more theoretically. But it's thereabouts

Note again, this is only if you are pushing 1.5mbps 24x7x30.

[sprintserve]

Yup. and that's what we are talking about.

[RH Robert]

450GB? Hmmm, I am misinformed then. Of course, with line quality and overhead, you would never see this amount of transfer on a T1 anyway. Would you? At least I wouldn't think so, or am I wrong and this is the transfer you are getting?

[SH-Max]

464.007GB/Month, however as others have said, this is only if you're pushing 1.54Mbit/Sec 24x7...

[DarktidesNET]

>> "450GB? Hmmm, I am misinformed then. Of course, with line quality and overhead, you would never see this amount of transfer on a T1 anyway. Would you? At least I wouldn't think so, or am I wrong and this is the transfer you are getting?" <<

I don't think you're wrong. I'd think it'd be highly unlikely you'd fully burst 24/7.

[mattr0]

This question is asked so many times. If you ever want to calculate it, use a little common sense:

1.5 Mbit per second * 60sec/min * 60 min/hour * 24 hour/day * 30 days/month = 3888000 Mbit per month

3888000 Mbit per month / 8 = 486000 Mbyte per month = 486 Gbyte per month.

Of course, as mentioned, that assumes you are using a full pipe, 24 hours a day. If you assume something simple, like 25% utilization at night, 75% utilization during the day (I just made those up, I have no idea what is 'normal'), then you would use 486 * 0.5 = 243Gbyte per month.

This is why I, IMHO, would rather have a burstable connection allowing 300Gbyte per month than a capped 1.5Mbps connection.

Matt

[RH Robert]

I just spoke with the provider for our inhouse T1 (KMC). You are correct that that is what it has the potential for, however no one will ever see that throughput even if they are running at max, 24/7/30. This is due to many reasons, including the line, router loss and other factors. They stated that the highest they have ever seen on a T1 has been 387 GB. So common sense says practical as well as theoretical limits need to be taken into consideration when planning bandwidth allocation.

[mikey2k4]

inspiring words inspiring words

[Wulex]

theres no inspiration here...this is all just advice...

anyways,

1.5 Mbit per second * 60sec/min * 60 min/hour * 24 hour/day * 30 days/month = 3888000 Mbit per month

3888000 Mbit per month / 8 = 486000 Mbyte per month = 486 Gbyte per month.

is how you calculate it?

if so, thank you very much.