Daniel Carrera wrote:
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
However, most people will be surfing at around 56k/s (right) so we
are talking about .3 seconds difference. Seems trivial to me.
Well, the thing is, a 56k line is a bit of a lie. First, the k is
"kiloBITS" not bytes. Second, the practical limitation of a phone
line is less than 56 kilobits anyways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56k_line
I thought that was the case. I was pretty sure 56kbytes wasn't rights,
but I couldn't remember what it was.
But when referring to computer storage, the kilo is uppercase K.
