Facts are not very consistent in advertising my dear boy, however such details are what they, are and they are not required. What is however is the ability to have a consistent understanding of what you download is measured in what you see on your computer.

Again, nobody knows what Mb is, not your mum or your granny or your English teacher. They all know that things are 1.2MB or 3.4GB and anything to make that all join up the better. Nothing wrong with giving an average speed of download in MB, there is no such download speed which is constant, downloads always fluctuate.

Points 1+2 mean nothing to normal people, you are not in advertising, you are not the general public, you don't see how being complex is not helpful.

Here we go with the typical tekkie with all his billy-no-mates around to prop him up because he, and they, don't live in the real world.

The gauge says it all. All the Light Peak advertising was 10Gbps, all the talk was of 10Gbps but then when it came down to it the gauge said it all... nobody really measures in Gbps at all, not even the people at Intel. Not for their public anyway, not for a demo of the technology anyway.

*I did email them by the way, on this very issue as soon as I saw this*

Why would he have a gauge that showed in MBs what the advertising said in Gb, because of the obvious.

Listen, discussion is one thing but sarcastic comments are another. I can beat the best of them (read this thread in its entirety).

You know as well as I do this is not mIRC.

I'm always ahead on these things. It happens every time, you'll see, we will end up measuring in MB.

(Ideally I'd like not to have to measure at all, I'd like a Fibre Optic connection, but just for now lets make things make more sense)

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Well sure, but when we get 4k video through the likes of Youtube your going to need to know.

Why? What will drive this need?

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I can beat the best of them

Definitely a familiar style

4k feeds are extremely demanding, HD will then be measured in MBps.

I'll probably be shot down for saying this, but perhaps BE have the correct approach as they use "meg" which could be translated as either depending on the individual

It doesn't affect the running time though. 1 hour SD is still 1 hour HD

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Listen, discussion is one thing but sarcastic comments are another. I can beat the best of them (read this thread in its entirety).

You know as well as I do this is not mIRC.

Well the first personal insult seemed to come from you :- "Are you really that numb headed at your work station"
followed by:-
"That's the kind of detachment you have from society"
"you won't because your too afraid of talking to normal people"
"You might have been top set maths at school, but you were probably bullied too"
"my dear boy"
"Here we go with the typical tekkie with all his billy-no-mates around to prop him up because he, and they, don't live in the real world".