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In my book it says that transmission delay=(length of the packet)/(transmission speed). However in all of the study problems they do not follow this logic. For example, they ask for the transmission delay of a 1,000 byte packet over a 1Mbps connection. I get 1 microsecond, but somehow they get 8. Am I missing something?

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Because a byte is not a bit.

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I feel so dumb. For some reason I was under the impression that Mbps stood for Megabytes per second and not Megabits per second. Makes perfect sense now. Of course they failed to mention that in the book. –  user1205853 Feb 29 '12 at 0:16

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