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The Difference Between kbps And kb/s

Definition:

kbps stands for Kilo Bits Per Second

kb/s stands for Kilo Bytes Per Second

The technical explaination is thus:

A Bit is the smallest piece of information a computer understands. A Byte is 8 Bits.

There is often alot of confusion with regards to the measurements kbps and kb/s. They are both used to measure, test and quote speeds on the Internet. ISP tend to quote speeds in kbps, so you see broadband packages quoted as 512, 1 Meg (actually 1024kbps), 2 Meg (actually 2048kbps) etc. etc. and browers tend to quote download speeds in kb/s, so 64kb/s, 128kb/s, 256kb/s etc.

You will see that kb/s is 8 times smaller than kbps!