Often it is helpful to tunnel certain traffic through an SSH tunnel. If you are on a public wifi connection where you may fear someone else intercepting your email or web traffic. Or in a work environment which may block access to a site you must access through your web browser. With an SSH tunnel,…
Computer data and file size is normally measured in binary code using the binary number system (counted by factors of two 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, etc), the prefixes for the multiples are based on the metric system! The nearest binary number to 1,000 is 2^10 or 1,024; thus 1,024 bytes was named…
The following table shows the conversion of data rates between Kilobytes per second (KBps) and Megabits per second (Mbps). To compute the Mbps, multiply KBps times 0.008192. Kilobits (Kbps) Bits (bps) Megabits (Mbps) Bytes (Bps) Kilobytes (KBps) Megabytes (MBps) 28 28,000 0.028 3,500 3.41 0.00334 30 30,000 0.03 3,750 3.66 0.00358 56 56,000 0.056 7,000…