I have hit a bit of a blank with the following taken off the Telkom DSL Web Site. Windows reporting around 23Kbs equates to around 184Kbs on DSL 
What is the difference in Kilobit per second (Kb/s) with regard to the DSL access service upload and download speed and KiloByte per second (KB/s) as indicated when I download files via the Internet?
Bandwidth is normally measured in Kilobit per second (e.g. Dial-up = 56Kb/s, ISDN = 128Kb/s and DSL = 512Kb/s). Applications like downloads in Windows will normally report speed in KiloBytes per second (KB/s).
You have eight Kilobits in one KiloByte (8Kb/s = 1KB/s) therefore if you download a file using Internet Explorer, Windows will report a download speed of say 23 KiloBytes per second and this will translate to 184 Kilobits per second in bandwidth throughput obtained on your DSL access line.
What is the difference in Kilobit per second (Kb/s) with regard to the DSL access service upload and download speed and KiloByte per second (KB/s) as indicated when I download files via the Internet?
Bandwidth is normally measured in Kilobit per second (e.g. Dial-up = 56Kb/s, ISDN = 128Kb/s and DSL = 512Kb/s). Applications like downloads in Windows will normally report speed in KiloBytes per second (KB/s).
You have eight Kilobits in one KiloByte (8Kb/s = 1KB/s) therefore if you download a file using Internet Explorer, Windows will report a download speed of say 23 KiloBytes per second and this will translate to 184 Kilobits per second in bandwidth throughput obtained on your DSL access line.