Should use the Pam meme template; it’s the same thing.
I_are_already_dead
I love when they say it’s MB but it’s really Mb
Emotional-Ad-5684
I’ve only ever seens Mbps for megabits. Never seen the Mb/s myself
exFAT_James
Multiply and divide by 8. 800Mbps == 100MBps
Deepspacecow12
It makes sense, data transmission is done in bits.
DigitalJedi850
Yeah it’s… literally the same thing. Back in the day, when a 5 Mbps connection was like… crazy fast, it was probably a lot easier to advertise than 600 KBps. And the fact that your network card is rated in bits as well probably lends to that.
Are we mad that you thought you were going to download at 150 megabytes per second? Because that’s… faster than most routers.
TheOneTrueZedubbs
Lower case is bits upper is bytes. 8 bits to a byte. ISPs love this one simple trick.
Parzivalrp2
just divide by 8, also dont use xfinity, theyre a scam
DDzxy
It’s ALWAYS been in bits, not bytes…
siraliases
I hate when dishonesty becomes a standard and people are left arguing over semantics
bindingflare
Storage is MB but not MiB.
Data transmission is Mb but not MB.
5G used everywhere but can mean anything from 5 Ghz spectrum to “faster**** than 4g”.
Still yet to notice true 5G in my country btw.
momentimori
They used the same trick in the 90s.
Sega boasted that Sonic the Hedgehogwas an 8 meg game when it was only 8 megabit.
burgertanker
You guys are getting more than like 50Mb/s?
creamcolouredDog
Data transfer speeds have always been measured in bits per second, it’s not just deceitful advertising.
Which reminds me, I noticed that fresh Steam installations now default to bits per second, probably because so many people kept complaining that Steam didn’t seem to download games at full speed.
Ronin7577
Yeah, they advertise 400mbps for my plan in my area. I’m lucky to pull more than 7MB/s on a download. The math just isn’t mathing but no amount of calling them seems to change anything. There’s just no real competition around here so they know you can’t actually do anything about it besides complain.
-The_Lone_Wolf
I used to think my data speed is very low, around 80 MB/s compared to others here, but then I realised that people state their speed in Mbps. 80 MB/s = 640 Mb/s
pereira2088
I still question why ram speeds are 3200 or 6000 MT/s and not 3.2 or 6 GT/s
Acopalypse
The reason I went with my current provider is they said what speeds I could expect based on others they have nearby, at a locked cost.
The BIG company could only tell me the plan I’d use gives me “up to” a certain speed, not that they could accomplish that, could not confirm what is average in the neighborhood, and also a year later the cost would almost double.
N7LP400
18.75 MB/s is quite decent, it’s not fast but still acceptable
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Should use the Pam meme template; it’s the same thing.
I love when they say it’s MB but it’s really Mb
I’ve only ever seens Mbps for megabits. Never seen the Mb/s myself
Multiply and divide by 8. 800Mbps == 100MBps
It makes sense, data transmission is done in bits.
Yeah it’s… literally the same thing. Back in the day, when a 5 Mbps connection was like… crazy fast, it was probably a lot easier to advertise than 600 KBps. And the fact that your network card is rated in bits as well probably lends to that.
Are we mad that you thought you were going to download at 150 megabytes per second? Because that’s… faster than most routers.
Lower case is bits upper is bytes. 8 bits to a byte. ISPs love this one simple trick.
just divide by 8, also dont use xfinity, theyre a scam
It’s ALWAYS been in bits, not bytes…
I hate when dishonesty becomes a standard and people are left arguing over semantics
Storage is MB but not MiB.
Data transmission is Mb but not MB.
5G used everywhere but can mean anything from 5 Ghz spectrum to “faster**** than 4g”.
Still yet to notice true 5G in my country btw.
They used the same trick in the 90s.
Sega boasted that Sonic the Hedgehogwas an 8 meg game when it was only 8 megabit.
You guys are getting more than like 50Mb/s?
Data transfer speeds have always been measured in bits per second, it’s not just deceitful advertising.
Which reminds me, I noticed that fresh Steam installations now default to bits per second, probably because so many people kept complaining that Steam didn’t seem to download games at full speed.
Yeah, they advertise 400mbps for my plan in my area. I’m lucky to pull more than 7MB/s on a download. The math just isn’t mathing but no amount of calling them seems to change anything. There’s just no real competition around here so they know you can’t actually do anything about it besides complain.
I used to think my data speed is very low, around 80 MB/s compared to others here, but then I realised that people state their speed in Mbps. 80 MB/s = 640 Mb/s
I still question why ram speeds are 3200 or 6000 MT/s and not 3.2 or 6 GT/s
The reason I went with my current provider is they said what speeds I could expect based on others they have nearby, at a locked cost.
The BIG company could only tell me the plan I’d use gives me “up to” a certain speed, not that they could accomplish that, could not confirm what is average in the neighborhood, and also a year later the cost would almost double.
18.75 MB/s is quite decent, it’s not fast but still acceptable
I don’t see the issue…
Is the same thing