F-F-S, in that document they use Kft as a measurement of distance. Can we all just make up our own weights and measures now? Use imperial, and talk about miles, or use metric and talk about KM, but Kft?

Yes, our new service works great at 430 guinea-metres.

Ironically this is a document that talks about standardisation.

Bunch of moronic imbecilic pillocks.

It's common on the other side of the Atlantic. Over here we use the Ell.

In reply to a post by hoopla:

My line is just over a mile to the cabinet. Initially it synced at 39Mb, but over a few weeks it has dropped back to 32Mb. Better than I'd expected!

That's hugely impressive - when vdsl2 came out initally the suggestion was you'd be lucky to get half that,

Why not standardise on the units used by The Register? http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standar...

The trouble with The Register units is that being a completely 1ndependent body they can change their standards whenever they want. I predict even within hours.

In reply to a post by arfster:

That's hugely impressive - when vdsl2 came out initally the suggestion was you'd be lucky to get half that,

Sadly, that still seems to be BTW's view. Their estimate was 10.7 down, 1.0 up. The engineer's tester showed 39 down 6.8 up, but of course the uplink speed is capped to 2.

I get actual downloads of around 30 and uploads of about 1.8 but because BT say the line is incapable of faster than 1.0 up, they refuse to allow the uplink speed cap to be raised.

Kilo-feet (kft) has been in use for many many years I certainly used it back in the 70s and manuals in use then, written back in the 30s and 40s also referred to it.

It is used for cable lengths or transmission distance, torpedo or gunnery range and a few other.

Kilofeet is an alternative name for the millipede.

[groan]

kilofeet * millipede = square feet