Re: Dialix Flat Rate is poor value.

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From: Leigh Hart
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 00:00

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Tony Langdon (tlang@freeway.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:
: 
: I disagree.  I've always known bandwidth to be measuered in bits per
: second:
: 
: You buy a modem, the speed is given in bits / second. (e.g. 2400bps,
: 14400 bps, 28.8k bits ps).
: 
: You set up an Ethernet in a company.  What speed do you use?  10 M
: _bits_/sec?  100 Mbits / sec ?

I was always tought:

k = 1000 
K = 1024 
m = 1000000 
M = 1048576 
g = 1000000000 
G = 1073741824 

b = bits
B = bytes

Thus:

64kb is 64000 bits 
64Kb is 65536 bits 
64kB is 64000 bytes
64KB is 65536 bytes

etc.

Cheers

Leigh

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From: hart@opera.iinet.net.au (Leigh Hart)
Subject: Re: Dialix Flat Rate is poor value.
Date: 1996/12/28
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