• @[email protected]
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    3 months ago

    internet speeds are measured in bits so they can artificially inflate numbers.

    cause selling 100mbit sounds a lot meatier than selling 12mbyte.

    • @Jumuta
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      133 months ago

      100 milibits lmao

    • Nightwatch Admin
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      53 months ago

      Not quite, network speeds have been measured in bps since the day the first packet got out of its egg.

    • KillingTimeItself
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      23 months ago

      the only realistic reason i can think of this, is to describe over the wire speed. Shits easy enough to convert once you hit the end point though, so meh.

    • Thurstylark
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      13 months ago

      Not really. It’s easier to measure a count of a thing than it is to measure a count of groups of 8 of a thing. It’s just easier to display when you’re not wasting the cycles to devide it by 8 all the time.