What is the difference between a download rate of 1700 kbps and one of 1.5 Mbps ???

Question

Which one is a faster download rate???
What does kbps stand for???
What does Mbps stand for???

so then is 3.0 Mbps is higher than 1700 kbps??

Answer 1

1700kbps is 1.7mbps > 1.5mbps is 1500kbps

kilobits per second
megabits per second

yes 3mbps is 3000kbps

Answer 2

What those guys said, above is true.

The only thing I have to add, is...

1.5 Mbps is the standard for a system called T1. It probably means that you have a whole T1 connection to the internet to yourself. The 1700 kbps (1.7 Mbps) is some other type of line like cable internet or something like that.

Beware. the 1700 kbps might be a peak rate, assuming no one else is on the cable at the time. That will slow things down if lots of users in the neighborhood are online.

If you have a dedicated T1 line, fantastic!-- you'll always have 1.5 Mbps access speed, and that's a guaranteed rate no matter what.

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Answer 3

kbps kilo bits per second
mbps mega bits per second
1000x kbps = 1 mbps
1700 kbps is faster than 1.5 mbps or 1500kbps by 200 kbps
this would make a difference in large files of a significant amount of time saved downloading

Answer 4

Kbps stands for Kilobits per second
Mbps stands for Megabits per second

There are 1024 Kilobits in 1 Megabit

Megabits are faster than kilobits...those are almost the same speed, so whichever one is cheaper I would go with.

Answer 5

1700 kbps = 1.7 mbps

kbps kilobits per second (kilo = thousand)
mbps megabits per second (mega = million)
so 1.7 is faster than 1.5

Answer 6

kbps is killobits per second mbps is megabits per second.1700kbps is 1.7 mbps so that is faster than 1.5 mbps

Answer 7

Boonie tech is correct - the first guy confused bits and bytes.
Common.

It all starts with a bit.
8 bits in a byte.
1000 bits in a kilobit
8000 bits in a kilobyte

1024 bytes in a megabyte.

Transfer Rates are typically measured in BYTES.