What is the difference between bandwidth and download speed?

Question

My bandwidth speed is 45.20 Mbps and my download speed is about 2147 kbps. What are the two difference?

Answer 1

Mbps is mega-bits per second. (1,000,000 bits)

kbps is kilo-bytes per second (1000 bytes)

a byte is equal to 8 bits

so if you divide your Mbps by 8 you get the number of bytes per second.

then divide that by 1000 to get the kilobytes per second.

comes out to about 5650 kbps

However this is just the maximum.  Your mileage may vary.

For a good check of actual speeds try an on-line speed check.

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/