On Thursday 26 March 2009 9:57:17 am Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 08:13 +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: > > > TBH, I just bursted into a laugh attack....for easyiness: 500 Gigabytes > > as written on a Harddrive label are not the same as 500 Gigabytes > > transfered over the Network (when you know HD vendor definition: kilo == > > 1000 and Network vendor definition normally kilo == 1024) > > > The latter isn't true either. > > Network speeds are generally in thousands of bits per second and > multiples thereof.
Yep, its 10 mbit internet...though usually the people selling it to you don't know the difference and will tell you 10 mbyte internet...So it sounds *great* on the phone...but that's really 1.2mbyte. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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