[tlug] The meaning of B in Kb/secs?

["Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jean_christian@example.com>]

Ok, silly question but I've always been confused when it comes to data 
transfer rates (be in hard drives or ethernet connections) wether the B mean 
bits or bytes?

From my apache server config-status I get:

48.9 requests/sec - 413.7 kB/second - 8.5 kB/request

Is that kilobits or kilobytes?

The reason I ask is that the pipe to my server at a data center is a 
100MB/sec pipe (which I assumes means 100 Megabytes/sec) and if my apache 
server is dishing out 413.7 Kilobytes/sec does that mean I am only using

413.7 KB / 100 000 KB = 0.004137

Or 0.413% of my bandwidth?

If I really am using only 0.417% then I'll think to switching to a 10MB line 
instead.

Thanks!

Jc


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