Allegedly, on or about 8 November 2017, Fred Smith sent: > the TL;DR part: > ( the 10 bits per byte I mentioned was just the difference in the > measurement units: 1GB is a gigaBYTE, but one Gb is a gigaBIT. And > the factor of 10 is rough, suitable for off-the-top-o-me-head > computations. Bytes are generally 8 Bits, so 10 isn't exact, but 10 > also fudges for the various overheads in packaging up each packet for > transmission.) You also have the confusions where some things report large numbers in SI units k=1000, etc, or binary power-of-two multipliers, k=1024, etc. And, just to make figuring out what you ought to have more difficult, you have manufacturers who may round-up/down advertised figures to look nicer. e.g. Would they sell a device as a 497 MB or 500 MB thing? Measuring wireless speeds can also strike unexpected (by most people) snags: Some wireless equipment doesn't work very well when the transmitter and receiver are very close to each other. And moving equipment by just a couple of centimetres can be enough to change reception problems caused by reflections/standing-waves. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.13.10-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 27 15:34:40 UTC 2017 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. A positive attitude is worth the effort if it annoys enough people. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
