• HTTP_404_NotFound@lemmyonline.com
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    1 year ago

    The same exact reason ISPs sell bandwidth in Mb/s, instead of the proper unit.

    Quite simply, 500Mbit/s sounds a lot more impressive than 0.5Gbps or 62.5MB/s.

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      1 year ago

      It leads to a lot of confusion for customers though, who think their Internet connection is 8 times faster than it is.

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      1 year ago

      But bits is the correct unit.

      Speed is measured in bits, storage is measured in Bytes (unless you are Microsoft)

      Your argument you be like saying 'why say a car that can do Kilometres per hour when it is really going cubic kilometres per hour.

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        1 year ago

        Not really, since bits and bytes represent the same dimension of data.

        Your argument is like saying “why say a car can do km/h when it is really m/s”