In reply to a post by tide:

Listen, discussion is one thing but sarcastic comments are another.

If I were to do sarcasm, you would notice ... or perhaps not ...

I've got everyone against me, which is nothing new, but the idea that all of you tekkies are just numb headed and unable to appreciate the need for change makes things seems desperate. It just cannot go on that Mb is used for the public, maybe in brackets after MB but not as the definition of what your going to get.

So it woks both ways.

Buffering wise it will.

Well there you go, prime example, meg, Mb, MB... its all confusing. What needs to be agreed is that MB is used, the public will not have to be retrained in anything because they don't know anyway. All they know is that the 1.2MB Word document they have will be zipped in little over a second on a 1MB line.

..well done by the way, first open minded comment to be made.

In reply to a post by tide:

The tekkie world is to become smaller and less impressive, the power has shifted to those who now can use their bodies to walk and climb in woodland, while carrying a computer (like and iPad) with them for simple buy powerful (and once the preserve of the tekkie) activities and tasks.

Heh!

Be sure not to bump into a mobile network mast when in the woods.

What do you think 'we techies' do all day? Some of us think nothing of strapping on 60lbs (that's old speak for weight) and walking around the hills for a few days. I wouldn't dream of taking a phone with me, as I'm not a worthless poser who needs the electronic Mummy wherever I go.

What do you think will happen if the techies disappear? No new PCs. No 4G and 5G and other G networks for your iWantanewtoynow! No IPv6 for all the users out there. It's not as if the stuff exists and therefore it runs. The food needs heating...you know what a cooker is, right? It's that thing the clever female (occasionally male) mages use instead of the microwave (more techie stuff).

In reply to a post by tide:

Your time is over and thankful I am.

Just getting up to speed. Be good for another 30 or 40 years before I retire. How old do you reckon 'us techies' are?

That's nothing.

The other day I downloaded a Meg at 6.5 Meg while reading my horoscope by Mystic Meg.

(Unless you're proficient in the way of 'magical techies', you won't have a clue about that)

CAP - reviewing broadband advertising - if it is a real issue with lots of problems which OCP should have noticed by now then it will recevei the attention

In reply to a post by tide:

Buffering wise it will.

It doesn't matter what you measure it in, it will either buffer or it won't. If HD buffers, I'll watch it in SD. All that is important is the streaming, not the amount of data. The only time the amount is important is if you want to store it, and storage is so cheap now for so much, that doesn't matter either.

In reply to a post by billford:

Definitely a familiar style

Hmmm.

OMG, can't you see why Apple's simplistic approach reaps rewards.

Facts are not very consistent in advertising 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.

I've got everyone against me, which is nothing new, but the idea that all of you tekkies are just numb headed and unable to appreciate the need for change makes things seems desperate.

If I guess who do I get ten quid?

I must admit, I wish his apple comment had been in the first post. I could have saved myself a few minutes and enjoyed the long, loud laugh.

If showing the MB when down loading it is usually shown as MB/sec since it is over a time frame, and some software shows both Mbps and MB/sec the choice is the software authors.

Selling ADSL hardware as capable of 1MB/sec is not going to happen due to the international market that things are sold in, i.e. would require a world wide change