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As you probably know a Kilobyte might refer to 1000 bytes or to 1024 bytes, depending on the context. More info on the Wikipedia page.
Most browsers express download speed in KB/s.
Question: do you know if they are using the 1000 or the 1024 convention for that Kilobyte? If you know about a specific browser (i.e., Firefox or Chrome) that will help already.
I am asking cause I am working on an application that needs to measure download speeds accurately, and this would help with the comparison.
Thanks Preet Kukreti for pointing me in the right direction. According to this Wikipedia page the answer is 1000 bytes.
So KB/s on browsers means 1000 bytes per second, not 1024.