Electrical Engineering question!?!?

There is more to this question than simple math. In computers, 'mega' is 1,048,576 not one million. Also, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) limits telephone speed to 53,333 bits per second for uncompressed data.

One byte of data also includes a start bit and a stop bit for a total of 10 bits not 8.

But we will just use your numbers.

2097152/56600= 37.05 seconds for 2 megabits.

2097152*10= 20,971,520 bits.

20971520/56600= 370.52 seconds or 6.175 minutes.

2 megabits is 2,097,152 bits. A modem operating at a data rate of 56.6 k bits will download the file in about 37 seconds.

The 2 megabyte file has 8 times the bits since a byte is 8 bits. It will take 296 seconds or just under 5 minutes to download the file.

2,000,000/56600 = 35.34 seconds

One byte = 8 bits so 2,000,0000 bytes is 16,000,000 bits so

16,000,000/56,600 = 282.68 seconds = 4.7 minutes

Hope this helps,

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