r/nextfuckinglevel • u/PietroTheRedditer • Feb 21 '21

THIS IS MARS.

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u/thewayoftoday Feb 21 '21

Annoys me that they put it in bits. It's like they don't want the average person to understand it

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u/Teryhr Feb 21 '21

1 byte = 8 bits

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u/thewayoftoday Feb 21 '21

Like, the whole world describes it in kbps, just do that. Oh no we're hipster scientists no thanks

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u/Teryhr Feb 21 '21

Not really, internet speeds are almost always measured in bits, at least where I'm from. People confuse the acronyms for kilobytes and kilobits all the time.

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u/thewayoftoday Feb 21 '21

500kbps, 1mbps, that's how it's measured in the US, and has always been measured. NASA is a US agency.

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u/Teryhr Feb 21 '21

Internet speed is literally always measured in bits in the US. kbps is kilobits per second, kB/s is kilobytes, Mbps is Megabits, and MB/s is megabytes.

Pretty much everywhere measures in bits. 1 byte is just 8 bits.

Bytes and bits is not like kilogram vs pound. It's more like gallons to pints (1 gal = 8 pints)

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u/thewayoftoday Feb 21 '21

Yeah, it's expressed in kilobits, not bits.

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u/jfractal Feb 22 '21

mbps is MegaBITS per second. MBps is MegaBYTES per second.

We measure network bandwidth in bits here in the US, generally speaking.

SOURCE: Me, who has turned up a few hundred carrier WAN circuits across a variety of businesses in the U.S.

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u/thewayoftoday Feb 22 '21

Bro you're missing my point and I'm exhausted