[nzlug] Broadband bandwidth drop: WTF?

Simon Bridge simonbridge at ihug.co.nz
Tue Jan 22 15:20:02 NZDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 10:20 +1300, Jack Pivac wrote:
> yuri wrote:
> > You'll find it's the other way round.
> > ISPs advertise in (kilo|mega)bits. It makes their figures appear 8x
> > bigger than if they advertised bytes.
> Or in xtra's case, how many multiples of dialup :D

That is actually a fairly responsible way to do it.




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