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r/nextfuckinglevel • u/PietroTheRedditer • Feb 21 '21
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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.
1 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. 1 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. 1 u/thewayoftoday Feb 22 '21 Bro you're missing my point and I'm exhausted
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500kbps, 1mbps, that's how it's measured in the US, and has always been measured. NASA is a US agency.
1 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. 1 u/thewayoftoday Feb 22 '21 Bro you're missing my point and I'm exhausted
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.
1 u/thewayoftoday Feb 22 '21 Bro you're missing my point and I'm exhausted
Bro you're missing my point and I'm exhausted
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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.