comcast is SO GREAT GUYS

[Headcrab Zombie]

mbps =/= mbs

Mbps - megabits per second
Mbs - Megabytes per second

Someone correct if I'm wrong there

The difference is in the capitalization of the B/b, not whether or not there's a p in it. Taking the p out doesn't change to meaning, it just makes it less clear what you mean
MBps or MB/s = megabytes per seconds
Mbps or Mb/s = mebabits per seconds

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[Trogtor]

at least comcast provides a better service for some people

let me tell you about "century link"


My city (Well, the area of my city. Also known as Greenwood County) has only one ISP all around. Meet Century Link.

Since there aren't many of us in "Greenwood County" no company bothers setting up here. Except Century Link.



Everyone in greenwood county is stuck with this pathetic company which charges us overprice for such an awful speed.

They recently bought over Embarq (which was maybe a little bit better than century link. Honestly I couldn't remember since I didn't know anything about internet at the time embarq was here). I had a friend who used to work at Century link and he hated it too. They were complete asshats.

[#Ravencroft]

This isn't a post your speed test thread.

[Trogtor]

This isn't a post your speed test thread.

sorry i was just trying to get my point across because this really pissed me off for the longest time

[Ipquarx]

MB == megabyte, MiB == Megabit

1 MB = megabyte (1,000,000 bytes)
1 MiB = mebibyte (1,048,576 bytes)
1 Mb = megabit (125,000 bytes)
1 Mib = mebibit (131,072 bytes)

Just for future clarification. It's the capitalization of the B that matters. Uppercase is 8x what lowercase is, basically.

[Headcrab Zombie]

It seems like ISPs are always stuffty if you live in an area with only one
But if you live in a bigger city with multiple ISPs in the area, they're pretty good cuz they actually have to compete

Network providers always do this stuff.

How is this "stuff"
it's not their fault you don't understand unit abbreviations. It perfectly clear to anyone who does understand them.
And it's not like they're hard to understand either. Capital B = byte, lowercase b = bit. It's literally that simple, yet so far in this thread 3 people have managed to screw it up
Furthermore I rarely see any speeds given in MBps, so it's not like there's any inconsistency. browser download speeds are the only thing I can think of given in MBps, but if you use those for a speed test, you're doing it wrong.

1 MB = megabyte (1,000,000 bytes)
1 MiB = mebibyte (1,048,576 bytes)
1 Mb = megabit (125,000 bytes)
1 Mib = mebibit (131,072 bytes)

A little more clarification on why two such similiar units exist:
kibi/mebi/gibi/et are binary prefixes: kibi=2^10, mebi=2^30, etc
kilo/mega/giga/etc are decimal prefixes: kilo = 10^3, mega=10^6, etc
Since computers work pretty much exclusively in binary, the decimal units aren't used very often

[#Ravencroft]

sorry i was just trying to get my point across because this really pissed me off for the longest time

Well it's fine if you're having similar issues but it get annoying when 50 people barge into the thread and post their speed test either to brag or just for the hell of it.

[SlayerZ99]

Well it's fine if you're having similar issues but it get annoying when 50 people barge into the thread and post their speed test either to brag or just for the hell of it.

mine was justified i was telling him to stop complaining

[WALK2222]

before you complain



i would kill for comcast where i live

I don't know, we both live in the same place.  I guess Verizon DSL isn't working out very well..

[QuadStorm]

It seems like ISPs are always stuffty if you live in an area with only one
But if you live in a bigger city with multiple ISPs in the area, they're pretty good cuz they actually have to compete

This is pretty much what happens when there's a monopoly vs when there are actually multiple companies in the same field competing.

Comcast gives a kinda average download speed, but a pretty stuffty upload speed that's only ~20% or so of what I should be getting. Luckily this rarely ever affects me much (but shows when hosting a BL server).

[/Pacha]

The difference is in the capitalization of the B/b, not whether or not there's a p in it. Taking the p out doesn't change to meaning, it just makes it less clear what you mean
MBps or MB/s = megabytes per seconds
Mbps or Mb/s = mebabits per seconds

oh okay, thanks for clarifying that

[D3ATH LORD]

How is this "stuff"
it's not their fault you don't understand unit abbreviations. It perfectly clear to anyone who does understand them.
And it's not like they're hard to understand either. Capital B = byte, lowercase b = bit. It's literally that simple, yet so far in this thread 3 people have managed to screw it up
Furthermore I rarely see any speeds given in MBps, so it's not like there's any inconsistency. browser download speeds are the only thing I can think of given in MBps, but if you use those for a speed test, you're doing it wrong.
A little more clarification on why two such similiar units exist:
kibi/mebi/gibi/et are binary prefixes: kibi=2^10, mebi=2^30, etc
kilo/mega/giga/etc are decimal prefixes: kilo = 10^3, mega=10^6, etc

I meant stuff in terms of they do it to try and purposeful trick people into thinking that they offer higher speeds, in order to benefit themselves and themselves only, rather than themselves and the customer.

You could argue that people who fall for this are stupid anyway but I doubt that many are familiar with such abbreviations, since not everyone on this planet works close enough with computers. Again, you could argue that knowing binary is basic education, but if you do then I'll just tear you a new arsehole.

[Headcrab Zombie]

I meant stuff in terms of they do it to try and purposeful trick people into thinking that they offer higher speeds, in order to benefit themselves and themselves only, rather than themselves and the customer.

Yeah sure except that there isn't any trickery involved in this aspect at all
They label, very clearly, the speed offered. The speed is given in the standard unit for measuring speed, abbreviated in the standard format.

Yeah, sure, there's a lot of people who doesn't know what that abbreviation means, but that's not the ISPs fault they don't know what it means. If people find the similiarity between Mbps and MBps confusing, that's not the ISPs fault, because they ISP didn't invent that unit and abbreviation.

Again, you could argue that knowing binary is basic education, but if you do then I'll just tear you a new arsehole.

The only place I mentioned binary in was addressing an entirely different point.
And you don't even need to have any idea what binary IS to understand the difference between a capital B and a lowercase b

[hodot]

it's like 2mbps at my moms