Network Speed - Word Drop

The base unit of network speed is the ______ per second. Larger units are the kilobit, ______ and gigabit per second, and each one is 1000 times the previous one. The maximum volume of data a connection can carry in one second is its ______. The ______ of a network is the delay between data being sent and data being received.

To work out how long a transfer takes, a file size in megabytes is changed to megabits by multiplying by ______. The file size in bits is then divided by the rate in bits per second, so the time is found in ______. The file size and the rate must use the same prefix before the division.

To construct an expression for a transmission rate, ______ the file size in bits by the time in seconds. This gives the rate in bits per second. A time given in ______ must be multiplied by 60 to change it into seconds.