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hitchies wrote:
> Marcel wrote -
>
> "....Tony's talking about kbit/s, I presume you're talking about kbyte/s.
> 75kb/s is pretty much what can be expected from Tony's DSL upload
> bandwidth. ...."
> ==============
>
> Sorry Marcel, but from this posting I still do not know whether your
> '75kb/s' are kilo-bits or kilo-bytes! ;-)
>
> This [kb-thing] is a very old and well cooked chestnut.
>
> I was relieved a couple of years ago when, from discussions (technical
> publications) I came to the conclusion that the consensus was now that:
>
> Kb/s represented kilo bytes per second
>
> and
>
> kb/s represented kilo-bits per second
>
> Now I'm in the dark again. More light please!! Thanks.
> ==============
>
B = bytes
b = bits
.... not the 'k'!
Tony
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