Where does the computer say xMB, any wireless connection speeds reported by the OS are in Mega bits per second.

So your proprosal means rewriting to OS to comply with UK rules.

NOTE: I am not saying people don't get confused, but that is the job of the ISP to explain the new fangled technology. Most people once explained do manage to get along.

Do people understand APR?

That's right, knowledge is power.

Are you not listening, the past means nothing. Its all in MB or GB now, nothing else. Only tekkies dominate the advertising. People do not realise that 8Mb is 1MB, then they get confused. Imagine asking someone to work out how fast a 25Mb line was, well they'd have to divide that by eight; so that's 3.125... so that 3MB... well why not just say so.

All files online are in MB and so it makes sense to measure that way too.

Windows 7 - reports both MB for files, and for things like network connections reports these in Mega bits per second.
Or do you deny that, the same linux, osx and any other OS.

I don't know what APR means, but I don't get into debt or have a house (i.e. Mortgage), but look at this:

http://cl.ly/1n0e0K0W1j3c101p1A0v


What's that Scotch Mist!

From the Wiki article. Note that a Byte is not necessarily 8 bits, even now.

The byte (pronounced /ˈbaɪt/), is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications, that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, a byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and it is for this reason the basic addressable element in many computer architectures.

The size of the byte has historically been hardware dependent and no definitive standards exist that mandate the size.

Though quite how you pronouce it the way described ... .

In reply to a post by tide:

the past means nothing. Its all in MB or GB now, nothing else.

Only in your head. The rest of the world knows what's what.

When measuring data storage it is measured in bytes as this is traditionally the basic size of a single stored character. It is worth stating at this point that the 8 bit byte is a convention and not a standard.

When measuring data transmission you measure in bits, as the bits transmitted do not map directly to the stored bytes. You may be transmitting control bits and storage bits. And then is the fact that a byte is not a fixed, unambiguous size.

And I even used to work with systems with mixed-length bytes.

I have not said that computers do not report files in terms of KB, MB or GB.
Computers use both MB and Mbps, using the correct one in the correct place.
Go have a look at the the speed that the ethernet card on the computer is saying it is operating at.

People do get confused, and misuse them, but generally easily spotted and once you explain the case of the B (b) is important then people get the idea.