Thread: What Is Your Connection Speed?

Originally Posted by SinofEnvy

12/1 Mbit. Rawr.

Edit: Dude, are we talking about Kbit or kb/s ? HUGE Difference. I think you're talking about kbit, seeing you have 56 as dialup, etc.. kb/s = kbit divided by 8. E.g., my 12 Mbit down line is actually 1.5 MB/s (meaning I can download with 1.5 MB/s max, if I dedicate the internet line to just that one download and the server is that fast).
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I am talking of bits thus the lowercase b... well I put the whole thing in lowercase... but yeah it's bits

From wikipedia:
A kilobit is a unit of information, abbreviated kbit, sometimes also kb.

A kilobyte (derived from the SI prefix kilo-, meaning 1000) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to either 1024 or 1000 bytes. It is commonly abbreviated KB, kB, Kbyte, kbyte, or, very informally, K or k.

Yeah looks like I used a less common abbreviation... my bad

Further edit: Wikipedia:
A kilobit per second (kbit/s or kbps) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to 1,000 bits per second. I

OK I used an INVALID abbreviation... really my bad... bah