On 8/23/2025 8:29 PM, Tim wrote:
Tim:
When looking at speeds, don't forget to check whether you're being
quoted megabits or megabytes per second.
home user:
'B' (upper case) means bytes.
'b' (lower case) means bits.
If I'm wrong, tell me!
Correct, but doesn't always mean that someone else has used them the
right way round. I mean that in general, as you're researching this
all over the internet.
Our ISPs here would like us to believe that 50Mb/s is blisteringly fast
internet speeds, for instance. As a *very* rough calculation (dividing
by 10 instead of 8), and there's handling and other things to take into
account, we know that's really only around 5MB/s, and that doesn't do
all that well in today's bloated internet, especially with multiple
things happening at the same time in your home network.
I understand.
People make mistakes.
Such numbers are (almost?) always ideal and serious over-estimates.
Actual results will (almost) always be substantially worse.
But they are good enough for comparing options.
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