👆 Pedant.
Comment on FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
100 mbps? That’s 100 millibits per second, or 0.1 bits per second. I’d certainly hope for better bandwidth than one but every ten seconds; that’s slower than smoke signals.
SaltySalamander@kbin.social 11 months ago
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
👆 Humorless git.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Debate pervert 👆
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re right, I’m horny for words.
calavera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I almost replied saying you had no idea you were talking about, but then I realized… Lol
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Except that’s like dividing by zero. A millibit is undefined. A bit is the smallest indivisible unit of digital information.
But capitalization is important to distinguish between b for bit and B for Byte.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, that’s like diving by 1,000.
Anyway, computer scientists split the bit back in 1969, which is how we’re able to make smaller and smaller computers: the bits are all smaller, so we can pack more into a single potato chip.
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Lol thanks for the chuckle
Pretzilla@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Good catch but not quite. bps is a rate so it is allowed to be an abstract expression.
How many chickens per hour cross the road?
And more importantly, why.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Information entropy is measured in bits, and the bits are almost always fractional.
poopsmith@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you had really slow Internet, like smoke signals or semaphores across a nation, you could characterize it as millibit:
1 bit over 1000 seconds = 1 millibit/s.
But yeah, it’s basically meaningless in today’s age for Internet speeds.
thesmokingman@programming.dev 11 months ago
The title used the wrong abbreviation and you didn’t read the linked press release. The previous standard was 25/3 Mbps so there’s no reason to downgrade; had you bothered to read the link you’re supposedly commenting on you’d see the new standard is 100/20 Mbps. That’s also laughably low for a regular household with a modicum of modern usage but we can’t really expect much from agencies under regulatory capture.
SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com 11 months ago
They were making a joke about units and the use of a lowercase m instead of an uppercase M for Megabits per second…
simple@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I wish we can all move to MB/s and get rid of the endless confusion on names
thantik@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We should change to mibibits! We need easily factored numbers of 10, not this old powers of 2 stuff! (/s if it wasn’t obvious)
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sarcasm noted, but: mibi/gibi are the powers of 2 version.
We all say megabit or gigabit when talking about internet speeds, but in many cases under the hood it’s actually measured in mibi/gibibits. Just means it’s 2% more when converted into base 10 ;)
ripcord@kbin.social 11 months ago
Good point on the first part. On the second... There's very little networking stuff that isn't pretty much handled in powers of 10 everywhere. I mean, eventually every number gets handled as binary at some point, but otherwise it's pretty rare for network values to get converted to some power-of-2 number.
Way more common is the stupid bits/bytes confusion.
UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
How about Mebinibbles?
ripcord@kbin.social 11 months ago
Gibiwords
greybeard@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I say we split the different and go for nibbles per fortnight.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
The reason we don’t is because the network does not care how the files you transfer are formatted.
It measure the amount of bits it can transfer.
Whether the file in question is a text document (8bit) or a HEIF (10bit)
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Mbps, megabits per second, is the standard. No idea why this author opted to use the highly unusual millibit.