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Unit of measurement of the speed at which a modem can transmit data. The PDA does well with video playback using Windows Media Player and the excellent free TCPMP video player and can handle up to 600 kbps smoothly. Examples: - 56K modem — 56,000 bit/s
- 128 kbit/s mp3 — 128,000 bit/s http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mp3/chapter/ch02.html
- 64k ISDN — 64,000 bit/s http://www.pcwebopedia.com/TERM/I/ISDN.html
- Another unit of data transmission is the kilobyte per second (kbyte/s or kB/s or kBps), which is 1,000 or 1,024 bytes per second. Bytes are typically 8 bits in modern systems, but even when 8-bit bytes are used, the number of kbyte/s is not necessarily exactly one eighth the number of kbit/s because the count of bytes might not include framing bits. For example, a 56 kbit/s RS-232 serial line transfers only 5.6 kbyte/s — not 7 kbyte/s — when used in the most common configuration (asynchronous, 8 data bits, no parity, one stop bit). It is fairly common to use kbyte/s with the binary meaning (1,024 byte/s) — more so than for kbit/s — perhaps because of the close relationship with the common binary usage of kilobyte for measuring file sizes.
Another related unit is the kibibit per second:
: 103 = 1,000 bit/s = 1 kbit/s (one kilobit or one thousand bits per second).
: 210 = 1,024 bit/s = 1 Kibit/s (one kibibit per second).
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