Comment on FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps

• thantik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)

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  • Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ;)

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    • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How about Mebinibbles?

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    • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Gibiwords

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• greybeard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I say we split the different and go for nibbles per fortnight.

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)

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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mbps, megabits per second, is the standard. No idea why this author opted to use the highly unusual millibit.

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