- 365.25 days per year
- 12 months per year
- 24 hours per day
- 60 minutes per hour
- 60 seconds per minute
- 1,024 MB per GB
- 1,024 KB per MB
- 8 kilobits (kb) per kilobyte (KB)
Put that all together and you get the following:
3.19 (month kb) / (sec GB)
So when you see a web hosting company stating a bandwidth per month (in GB), you can multiply that by 3.19 to get a kilobits per second figure. In other words, 18 GB/month of bandwidth is the amount of bandwidth that a 56Kb modem would consume at full capacity, and 480 GB/month is roughly the same as a 1.5Mb T1 line.
