Getting 100mbit in '07 week 7

[Technoid]

I was notified this week that they will hook up my apartment in week 7 or 8

Only 3 more months on ADSL

[Claymonkey]

I am EXTREMELY jealous

[Brian Ellis]

100 millibits/second is not very fast. Even my nominal 1 Mbit/sec compares well to that

[Technoid]

I am EXTREMELY jealous

You don't have to be, they have already moved it forward 4 times, I'll probably end up getting it in december 2010

[GT98]

I went from a 10mbit to 30mbit speed and I haven't seen that much of an improvement with downloading stuff...

[Jammrock]

I went from a 10mbit to 30mbit speed and I haven't seen that much of an improvement with downloading stuff...

That's because most server/sites cap your max download rate (speed limit) or they themselves can't push 100 Mbps due to server load or host limitation. What 100 Mbps would enable, in theory, is better latency and the ability to download multiple streams at high speed without lag or data loss. Such as streaming TV, torrenting, download an ISO and game demo all at once and still have, with a good QoS implementation, enough badwidth to game without heavy lag.

Jammrock

[Nowhere]

Well, I will be getting something like this in few days...

Only problem - through NAT...

[Brian Ellis]

I went from a 10mbit to 30mbit speed and I haven't seen that much of an improvement with downloading stuff...

Nit-picking, again but speed in a car is mph or km/h. Speed on the information highway also needs the time unit and the abbreviation for mega is M. The prefix m means milli- or 1/1000. I agree that an increase from 10 millibit/h to 30 millibit/h would allow you to download a small, simple web page/week. However, I have a feeling you mean 10 Mbit/sec and 30 Mbit/s. Do you?

[lowlifecat]

Nit-picking, again but speed in a car is mph or km/h. Speed on the information highway also needs the time unit and the abbreviation for mega is M. The prefix m means milli- or 1/1000. I agree that an increase from 10 millibit/h to 30 millibit/h would allow you to download a small, simple web page/week. However, I have a feeling you mean 10 Mbit/sec and 30 Mbit/s. Do you?

ahem... nit-picking your nit-picking. data transmission i believe is officially measured in BAUD.

there is a difference between mb/s and Mb/s. the first is megabits per second and the latter is megabytes per second. 1 byte = 2 nibbles = 8 bits.

milli- is never used for data.

it says so in the bible. +=

[Sasq]

yawn, so some of you are finally getting real broadband

[Brian Ellis]

there is a difference between mb/s and Mb/s. the first is megabits per second and the latter is megabytes per second. 1 byte = 2 nibbles = 8 bits.

That is utter nonsense.

M is always mega-, m is always milli-. No departure from this rule is permitted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix

Strictly speaking, bit is an abbreviation for binary digit and ISO state that abbreviations should not be further abbreviated. It is therefore wrong to use b for bit. Also, strictly speaking, byte is not an abbreviation and could be abbreviated to b (at the risk of misunderstanding) or by; for this reason, some local standards have stated that B is permissible for byte, although this is incorrect as the unit is not derived from a proper noun (person or place name). Hence, in the cited page, one finds:

It is recommended by several standards bodies to use bit and B to keep the units very distinct, as in kbit or MiB.

Furthermore, a space is ALWAYS mandatory between the value and the unit or the unit abbreviation. Thus 10kHz should be 10 kHz.

I apologise for the nit-picking but I have sat on an ISO standardisation committee and the misuse of symbols and units has become a sore point: we have always had to keep to the very strict protocol.

[Technoid]

That is utter nonsense.

M is always mega-, m is always milli-. No departure from this rule is permitted. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix

Strictly speaking, bit is an abbreviation for binary digit and ISO state that abbreviations should not be further abbreviated. It is therefore wrong to use b for bit. Also, strictly speaking, byte is not an abbreviation and could be abbreviated to b (at the risk of misunderstanding) or by; for this reason, some local standards have stated that B is permissible for byte, although this is incorrect as the unit is not derived from a proper noun (person or place name). Hence, in the cited page, one finds:


Furthermore, a space is ALWAYS mandatory between the value and the unit or the unit abbreviation. Thus 10kHz should be 10 kHz.

I apologise for the nit-picking but I have sat on an ISO standardisation committee and the misuse of symbols and units has become a sore point: we have always had to keep to the very strict protocol.

If this bothers you so much Brian, open your own thread on it

Anyway, do you have any constructive to add besides nitpicking?

[lowlifecat]

Brian > now we come to misnomers that might need another thread.

Using commun sense one would know that a millibit is impossible. A bit being the smallest measurement of digital data..

If someone is too lazy to hit the shift key to capitalize M, I'm not gonna assume they are talking about an impossibility...

And utla not nonsense: official measurement do-hicky for information transfer is BAUD or signals per second.

Ps: your right about the cap M, for some reason I got confusled between B and M.

Tech> so will we be seeing less of you now that you have faster pr0n?

[Sasq]

Tech> so will we be seeing less of you now that you have faster pr0n?

Naa, just lots of him complaining about the cost of NAS servers to store it all

[Jessterw]

Me thinks someone is speaking from experience