I am always amazed at how the simple concept of bits and bytes are confused by so many. It goes back to hardware engineers using the Metric (base 10) system in describing Hard Drive storage sizes, and bandwidth transfer speeds being expressed in "bits" of information.
Then the software programmers use base 2, and only describe useable data expressed in terms of bytes (comprised of 8 bits--think of the parts of a digital clock showing the numeral 8 which has 7 pieces + 1 where they are all off). It is pretty confusing that the only real way to properly distinguish between bits and bytes is with a lower and upper case letter "b"/"B" respectively. They should have called a "Byte" something like a "Zoot" so there would never have been this confusion. ----- Original Message ----- From: "sprout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 1:39 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Re: sv_unlag and Ping
MB=mega byte Mb means mega bit ... thats where the confusion is its all in the abreviation but clayton has it right as well as james just diffeernt views but for the reasoning of the server I think its figured in bits so clayton is altimatly right
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