• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    100 mbps? That’s 100 millibits per second, or 0.1 bits per second. I’d certainly hope for better bandwidth than one bit every ten seconds; that’s slower than smoke signals.

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      I wish we can all move to MB/s and get rid of the endless confusion on names

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          Sarcasm noted, but: mibi/gibi are the powers of 2 version.

          We all say megabit or gigabit when talking about internet speeds, but in many cases under the hood it’s actually measured in mibi/gibibits. Just means it’s 2% more when converted into base 10 ;)

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            Good point on the first part. On the second… There’s very little networking stuff that isn’t pretty much handled in powers of 10 everywhere. I mean, eventually every number gets handled as binary at some point, but otherwise it’s pretty rare for network values to get converted to some power-of-2 number.

            Way more common is the stupid bits/bytes confusion.

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        Mbps, megabits per second, is the standard. No idea why this author opted to use the highly unusual millibit.

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      I almost replied saying you had no idea you were talking about, but then I realized… Lol

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      Except that’s like dividing by zero. A millibit is undefined. A bit is the smallest indivisible unit of digital information.

      But capitalization is important to distinguish between b for bit and B for Byte.

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        No, that’s like dividing by 1,000.

        Anyway, computer scientists split the bit back in 1969, which is how we’re able to make smaller and smaller computers: the bits are all smaller, so we can pack more into a single potato chip.

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        Good catch but not quite. bps is a rate so it is allowed to be an abstract expression.

        How many chickens per hour cross the road?

        And more importantly, why.

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        If you had really slow Internet, like smoke signals or semaphores across a nation, you could characterize it as millibit:

        1 bit over 1000 seconds = 1 millibit/s.

        But yeah, it’s basically meaningless in today’s age for Internet speeds.

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      The title used the wrong abbreviation and you didn’t read the linked press release. The previous standard was 25/3 Mbps so there’s no reason to downgrade; had you bothered to read the link you’re supposedly commenting on you’d see the new standard is 100/20 Mbps. That’s also laughably low for a regular household with a modicum of modern usage but we can’t really expect much from agencies under regulatory capture.