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internet speed megabits/megabytes

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sonoma1993

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How come broband internet company promote there internet speed in megabits instead of megabytes of kilobytes? Im assuming it an advertisement stratgey.
 
Originally posted by: sonoma1993
How come broband internet company promote there internet speed in megabits instead of megabytes of kilobytes? Im assuming it an advertisement stratgey.
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No it's not an advertisement strategy. Bits is used in terms of transfer speed, bytes is used in terms of size (usually)
 
Originally posted by: arcenite
Originally posted by: sonoma1993
How come broband internet company promote there internet speed in megabits instead of megabytes of kilobytes? Im assuming it an advertisement stratgey.
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No it's not an advertisement strategy. Bits is used in terms of transfer speed, bytes is used in terms of size (usually)
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Pretty much. When Adelphia says you have a 6mbps connection, that's bits, not bytes. Divide by 8, and you have roughly 750KB/sec, in bytes. I didn't know any ISPs were using bytes to promote their speeds, that's just stupid.
 
Originally posted by: sonoma1993
How come broband internet company promote there internet speed in megabits instead of megabytes of kilobytes? Im assuming it an advertisement stratgey.
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did you know that the hard drive manufacturers measure gigabytes with a metric measurement? 😉
 
Network transfer rates are a serial connection, so it ?bps. If it's a parallel connection, then it would be ?Bps.
 
Originally posted by: Sphexi
Originally posted by: arcenite
Originally posted by: sonoma1993
How come broband internet company promote there internet speed in megabits instead of megabytes of kilobytes? Im assuming it an advertisement stratgey.
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No it's not an advertisement strategy. Bits is used in terms of transfer speed, bytes is used in terms of size (usually)
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Pretty much. When Adelphia says you have a 6mbps connection, that's bits, not bytes. Divide by 8, and you have roughly 750KB/sec, in bytes. I didn't know any ISPs were using bytes to promote their speeds, that's just stupid.
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🙁 Gimmie a 8mbps connection =)
 
Originally posted by: TheToOTaLL
8 bytes in 1 bit - the math's not that hard.
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apparently it is! :evil:


As someone else has already mentioned; transmission speeds are measured in bits per second (b/s) and storage capacity and storage rates are measured in bytes (B) and bytes per second (B/s).
 
marketing. a bigger number is sexier. most consumers don't know the difference between a bit and byte and just confuse the two. so the number was more important. and yes, the modem figures got insane. 56000 kbps omg its huge speed!
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
marketing. a bigger number is sexier. most consumers don't know the difference between a bit and byte and just confuse the two. so the number was more important. and yes, the modem figures got insane. 56000 kbps omg its huge speed!
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wouldnt that be "56000 bps"... not kbps
 
Originally posted by: brunswickite
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
marketing. a bigger number is sexier. most consumers don't know the difference between a bit and byte and just confuse the two. so the number was more important. and yes, the modem figures got insane. 56000 kbps omg its huge speed!
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wouldnt that be "56000 bps"... not kbps
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oops. yes but they are using bits instead of bytes is the point.
 
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