am reffering to 21CN adsl2+ 20/24mbit services

do you have stats for sync speed distributions on these ?

VM does come out reasonably well, but it's the only fixed speed service OFCOM test so no real comparisons.

What zeroes did I add at what end? I gave you justification, which you chose to ignore, as to why it is the way it is and has always been.

In reply to a post by tide:

It has to change, because files are bigger now, the measurement has to catch up.

No, the standard bodies will just define bigger SI prefixes, not change the quantities being measured.

I wish you'd speak English.

In reply to a post by yarwell:

am reffering to 21CN adsl2+ 20/24mbit services

do you have stats for sync speed distributions on these ?

VM does come out reasonably well, but it's the only fixed speed service OFCOM test so no real comparisons.

no specific breakdown but the bbc is my source, the article which mrsaffron takes part has the info.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12618350

link from 1st post.

69% 8mbit or below
3% close to max speed.
rest in between.

Edited by Chrysalis (Thu 03-Mar-11 14:58:41)

Some one go wake up tide, this is funny to read

I banished the tide.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

69% 8mbit or below

While we are on the subject of units. I'm glad I'm not one of the 69% who get up to only 8 millibits per second

The thing is though that there is no real confusion about the meaning in the contexts where we see it. Similarly k and K.

What hasn't been mentioned so far as I remember though is the M = 1024 for storage but 1000 for transmission speed. That really is a pain, as they aren't used in a standardised manner by software writers.

It was only a

On M = 1024 or 1000: It's not really significant for the purposes we use it for; its only 2.4% diff.

e.g. an 8 Meg speed might just as well be an 8.2 Meg speed, or v.v.
TBB uses M=1024 in its speedtests:

Speed Down 15904.48 Kbps ( 15.5 Mbps )

But 1000 in tbbMeter.

Nothing like being consistent!

I don't use that, but NetMeter gives me the choice of Kb, Kib, KB or KiB, which should please, or maybe confuse, OP

EDIT: Being a binary computer, I always use Ki. Oh, and I use b for speeds and B for usage.

Edited by XRaySpeX (Thu 03-Mar-11 16:27:34)