The whole funda of Bits and Bytes!

     You must be always wondering why my internet speed is slow in spite of your ISP(Internet Service Provider) promising you with several Mbps. Well, the basic misconception behind all this is that your computer measures data in bytes (eg : kilobytes, megabytes) and your ISP measures the same in bits!. Its that simple!. so whatever speed your ISP says will be 8 times more than whatever you experience practically! you have a 2 Mbps connection? ,well then you must be getting a speed of 2/8 ,ie .25 KBps! ie 256 KBps.
       Whenever you see speed in Mbps or Kbps(mega or kilo bits per second) divide the numerical by 8 to get the actual data transfer speed!. As convection "b" is taken as bits and "B" as bytes to avoid confusion!
so next time whenever your friend says that he has a 1 Mbps connection, He refers to bits per second and not bytes!. Your friend will be able to download 1 MB of data in 8 seconds and not in 1 single second!

Here is the basic data conversion table!

Unit	Equals
1 Bit	Binary Digit
8 Bits	1 Byte
1024 Bytes	1 Kilobyte
1024 Kilobytes	1 Megabyte
1024 Megabytes	1 Gigabyte
1024 Gigabytes	1 Terabyte
1024 Terabytes	1 Petabyte
1024 Petabytes	1 Exabyte -
1024 Exabytes	1 Zettabyte
1024 Zettabytes	1 Yottabyte
1024 Yottabytes	1 Brontobyte

Abbreviation Table!

Unit	Abbreviation
Bit	b
Byte	B
Kilo Byte	KB
Mega Byte	MB
Giga Byte	GB
Tera Byte	TB
Peta Byte	PB
Exa Byte	EB
Zetta Byte	ZB
Yotta Byte	YB
Bronto Byte	BB

Well, Friends! This is my very first blog post! So kindly bear with my language!
Thank You!