Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP in America"

Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by ghshephard on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @06:40PM (#4907666)

A plea from all those who try and understand which acronym is being used - we will not think less of you if you use Mbits/sec and MBytes/sec - and I suspect the rate of confusion will be somewhat reduced.

(There are those who aren't aware that Mbits/second is the "SI" sense of "Mega, and think that there are not 1048576 bits/second in a Mbit/second, but, we'll leave that for another day)

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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by Firehed on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @12:02AM (#4908724)

> (There are those who aren't aware that Mbits/second is the "SI" sense of "Mega, and think that there are not 1048576 bits/second in a Mbit/second, but, we'll leave that for another day)

To be fair, that 2.4% KB/KiB delta isn't terribly interesting until it's into the "giga" or "tera" prefixes (where it compounds to 10-12%). Given you see way more than that in bandwidth fluctuation anyway, it's even less relevant.

Plus we always measure our files in byte-suffixed units rather than -bit, which increases the confusion by a factor of 8.

That's how I "lost" half a terabyte in my NAS :( Knew that going in, but that's still a crazy amount of storage to apparently disappear due to a naming convention.

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