How is it possible for a final download to be a few Kb, while during the download it measured Mbs ? Basty

I'd bet if you did the math you'd find out they come out to the same amount of data. Likely it's just a difference in which measure your OS is using as compared to what the sending server uses.

mbps = megabits per second kb = kilobytes mbps is how fast your car is traveling kb is how big your car is. They are not the same. Example of Oxymoron: Person who is pro life and anti sex education. Education is key to prevention. Prevent conception you prevent abortion. Abstinence training clearly isn't working.

Wanderer To make my point ABSOLUTELY clear, during the download, megabytes were accumulating (and being tallied). At the end, the download had a size of a few kilobytes. How is that possible ? not even CurtR's reply explains that ! Basty

they are not megabytes but megabits. I put a diamond ring in a small box and then package that in a much bigger box. I then mail it. When it arrives all of the packaging is thrown away. You are trying to equate the package with the size of the contents. Does that make sense? Here's another example. You get on a train. You go to another city. You get off the train. Are you as big as the train? Of course not! Transmissions contain overhead. You see the measurement of the transfer which includes the overhead. If you want to learn more consider a google search on "packet networking" and see where it leads you. Example of Oxymoron: Person who is pro life and anti sex education. Education is key to prevention. Prevent conception you prevent abortion. Abstinence training clearly isn't working.

I understand the point you are making. I am not sure that it applies to the situation I am asking about. Isn't a byte 8 bits, so at most, the difference is a factor of 8 ? I saw Megabytes and Kilobytes, that is a factor of 1000 ! Basty

You haven't realized the concept behind my analogies. You continue to equate transfer totals with package totals. Learn about packet networks and tcp/ip overhead. Best of luck! Example of Oxymoron: Person who is pro life and anti sex education. Education is key to prevention. Prevent conception you prevent abortion. Abstinence training clearly isn't working.