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nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
those are different b. 🙃 One is megabits per second and other is megabytes per second.
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nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
those are different b. 🙃 One is megabits per second and other is megabytes per second.
kabi@lemm.ee 1 week ago
kinda funny that OP got the letter cases right but didn’t think there was actually a difference
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Same with every average ISP customer. 1GB/s down and 1Gb/s up sounds like the same thing. ISPs expect customers to know the difference the same way Tesla pretends everyone knows airplane autopilot is just a speed and vector system
litchralee@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
It’s for this reason that I sometimes spell out the units as: 1000 GBytes/sec or 1000 Gbits/sec. In my book, Byte is always “big B” and bit is always “little b”, and then spelling it out makes it unambiguous in writing.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 week ago
In the world of phone keyboards doing whatever the fuck they want with autocorrecting capitalizations, that is effective (assuming they’re equally trained to accept both words and don’t autocorrect Gbits to GBytes)
Lol, who down voted your comment though? Why? Best I can do is bring it back to 1 point.