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Lemmy, what's your internet speed in mbps? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by AstroLightz@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

.... mbps could mean both but one should differ between Mbps and MBps.

100 Mbit (Mbps) enables a max download speed of: 12.5 MBps....

[–] pixelscript@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've never seen transfer rates given in MBps in the wild. It's always Mbps.

Serial network connections give no care to byte alignment, they operate either bit by bit or symbol by symbol (which are rarely byte aligned).

[–] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean we are throwing accuracy out the window by using milli anyway so who the hell cares , at this point I'm afraid people are using "m" to mean JEDEC mega , ie per IEC mebi ("Mi") , not even mentioning how stupid using the "p" infix looks when surrounded by SI or SI adjacent units

[–] pixelscript@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

we are throwing accuracy out the window by using milli anyway so who the hell cares

It's a factor of 8 we're talking about. That's not far off from a factor of 10. If a factor of 10 difference is important enough to get its own prefix in SI, I think a factor of 8 difference is plenty enough to care about having clarified notation. This isn't like the mega/mebi thing where the drift is only on the order of 3%.

[–] MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 8 months ago

yeah but using mb/mB instead of M(i)b/M(i)B is a factor of 1 000 000 / 1 024 000 which is more than six magnitudes greater than 8