On Sun, Apr 07, 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: Cable modem after 2 weeks": > If you say so. Conventionally, though, it's kilobit per second. I am > not aware of any standard that mandates that, but MB is megabytes, Mb > is megabits, etc. E.g. > > http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/MB.html
Just another small sidenote: when measuring network speeds, the convention is that kilo means 1,000, mega means 1,000,0000 and giga means 1,000,000,000: these kilo/mega/giga are *not* powers of two. A 100Mbps Ethernet's bandwidth is 100,000,000 bits per second, not 104,857,600 (=100*2^20) bits per second. -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Apr 7 2002, 25 Nisan 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |How long a minute depends on what side of http://nadav.harel.org.il |the bathroom door you're on. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
