Kilobit - Kilobyte

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Kilobit:
1,024 bits (the number comes from raising 2 to the tenth power)

Kilobits per second (Kbps):
Unit of data transfer over a network. This is the "normal" unit for representing streaming.

Kilobyte:
1,024 bytes

Kbps

There are various overheads which need to be allowed for when streaming videos, which sometimes leads to confusion.

Generally streams are labelled 56k to indicate that they are suitable for streaming over a modem. The actual streams are generally encoded at 34-40Kbps.