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More info: http://familyinternet.about.com/cs/c.../aa052401a.htm Morgwen |
Thanks for that link murasame. Looks like sometimes a kilobit is 1000 bits, sometimes it is 1024 Quote:
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1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 etc. this are the possible meausures. This is also the reason why the memory canīt have for example 50Mb or 100Mb. meausures that you can divide through 10 are always rounded! Morgwen |
True: binary for computer architecture (RAM, HD . . . ) decimal for communications bits. So ISP bandwidth (the topic of this thread) is measured in decimal bits. |
I have never heard anything about decimal bits, do you have a link? As I said if you can divide it by 10 is ALWAYS rounded. Its technically not possible to tranfer data as a decimal! A bit is only one energy impulse, you need 8 bits to display a sign (a byte). Morgwen |
it's on the bottom of the page from murasame's link http://www.beesky.com/newsite/bit_byte.htm Quote:
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Ok I see. But Stief if you notice the conversation we talked about Kilobytes! Quote:
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Yes, I noticed. The two standards give lots of chances for confusion, and it's hard to know (and not often particularly relevant) which system a program/ISP uses. Download speeds with BYTES might refer either to a casual abbreviation of communication speed OR to the speed it is being written to the hard drive. Only the developers know for sure :) Just try working here in Canada with "ounces"! Caught between the British Imperial system and the US system, and confused by mass and volume "ounces", there is lots of room for confusion, especially with Grandma's recipes :p |
er i have dialup any pointers? |
If you want really specific dial-up pointers on how to search and what to do or what no to do, then ask LOTR. He just got out of dial-up. Wait. I'll go get'im for ya. YO LORD! |
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