Bits vs Bytes ( It's really just a matter of if you have 8 of them )

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8 Bits = 1 byte. But I needed to ramble for 30 seconds :-)
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@itouchhacker241 It goes back to the days of BAUD... there was a time when Bits per second and Baud aligned. As they started to diverge it made sense to express things in Bits Per Second so that old specs made sense. I'll do a video on this.

BrandonWirtz
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@renegade8164 That's "Wrong" math. It was 1024 for a Long time, Marketing said "OMG we are losing 7%" So they changed. Apple benefits that on hardware, so it was to their advantage.

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@suiton629 Mega is defined as million (1, 000, 000, or 10^6.) Not one digit more, not one digit less. Giga is defined as billion (1, 000, 000, 000, or 10^9.) Not one digit more, not one digit less. Therefore, by definition (i.e. defined correctly) One GigaByte is equal to one thousand Megabytes (or 10^3MB.)

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@lhamil64 You have it backwards, 4 mbps = .5 MB/s

BrandonWirtz
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and why dsl is measured in bits and not in bytes?

Federico
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@lhamil64 You have it backwards. 8 bits = 1 byte, so you have a .5 mb/s internet connection.

chsiao
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i remember i used to get confused with ISP speeds, say if it was 8MB i use to think ud get 8MB per min lol

stevek
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@lhamil64 Take the speed in megabits and divide by 8 to get the speed in megabytes.

grskgnst
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@BlackwaterOpsDotCom Could you explain the math to me? It think I understand how you go to .5mb/s (4/8 = .5) but I'm not entirely sure why you do that.. I feel like this should be very simple (considering I'm pretty good with math).

lhamil
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So if my download speed is about 4mbps (megabits per second?) then it's the same as 32, 000 bytes per second? So it would be 32 megaBYTEs per second? For some reason, that doesn't quite make sense to me.. Maybe my math's wrong?

lhamil
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@itouchhacker241 It goes back to the days of BAUD... there was a time when Bits per second and Baud aligned. As they started to diverge it made sense to express things in Bits Per Second so that old specs made sense. I'll do a video on this.

BrandonWirtz