You're talking [censored]. You can keep trying to push this but you don't even use the service.

I find it's simplest to write bits or bytes in the first place, as any attempt at economy of characters is always lost when we end up with yet another thread trying to explain the difference or correct an error !

I was being facetious

Anyone know what makes 'facetious' and 1 other word in the dictionary unique ?

It has all the vowels in alphabetical order? More than one other word with the same thing, though...

I can find abstemious, abstentious, adventitious, aerious, annelidous, arsenious, arterious, and caesious on a quick Google.

Just to be somewhat facetious...

How is it unique if one other word has the same characteristics?

It is idiots like you that confuse everyone else by not staying with conventions. Anyone with comms knowledge,, which you obviously lack, knows that serial data rates are in bits (with prefix if required) and that bits uses a small b. File sizes are in Bytes with a big B.

A bytes can be any size and I have worked with 7,8,9,16,18,24,32 or 36 bits in a Byte.

Just look at the confusion in adverts where who, like you, do not understand the subject and ignore convention, write speeds of 40MB per second or 40mbps or data allowance of 40Gb.

Conventions are there for a reason.

Real World using speeds of megabytes - you are talking out of your rectum. Have a close look at how Microsoft indicate the connection speeds - in every version of Windows I can see from here (98, XP, Vista and 7) it tells me the connection is either 100Mbps or 1000Mbps - that is bits.

Get it right.

Thats better than the 10 you see on adsl max

In reply to a post by Zadeks:

All P2P is shaped during peak. (BitTorrent, Hamachi, Spotify, etc)

Good - keeps all the bandwidth bandits off of my "network" and on someone else's

In reply to a post by zebedeeeeee:

A bytes can be any size and I have worked with 7,8,9,16,18,24,32 or 36 bits in a Byte.

I doubt they were all called Byte; the larger ones would've probably been called Word.

F-ck me I have created Nerdmageddon!

In reply to a post by zebedeeeeee:

Real World using speeds of megabytes - you are talking out of your rectum. Have a close look at how Microsoft indicate the connection speeds - in every version of Windows I can see from here (98, XP, Vista and 7) it tells me the connection is either 100Mbps or 1000Mbps - that is bits.

Get it right.

Sure, network connection speeds are given in megabits, but transfer speeds as reported by browsers? Nope!

http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt105/MrMarf/spee...

That is what I mean by real world, as I've been alluding to, its all about interpretation.

There really is no need to resort to calling me an idiot zebedeeeeee.

Wait, silly me, what am I saying?! Forums these days are all about point scoring and slagging people off. :/

Meanwhile I'll happily continue to ignore convention and use megabytes per second to describe my infinity transfer speeds, as it is an easy way to estimate out how long a file will take to download.

Marf
BT Infinity - 1.8 megabytes per second transfer speed

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