[nzlug] Broadband bandwidth drop: WTF?

[Cameron Bradley]

The reason connections are specified in bits comes from back in the days
where they were literally measured in bits per second, sometimes as low
as 300bps, In short, while it creates a lot of confusion nowadays, it
makes sense when compared to older connections. If it works, why change it.

Simon Bridge wrote:
> 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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