Fibre 38Mbps, 76Mbps

Chimp Paradox · 7 Jan 2015 at 11:37

Do these numbers refer to Mbits, rather than MBytes, right?

skyripper · 7 Jan 2015 at 11:41

Yep.
MB = MegaByte
Mb = Megabit

tom_e · 7 Jan 2015 at 11:42

Yes, or else it would be 38MBps and 76MBps.

TheVoice · 7 Jan 2015 at 11:44

tom_e said:
Yes, or else it would be 38MBps and 76MBps.

Although usually it's expressed as MB/s or MB/sec to avoid such confusion.

bremen1874 · 7 Jan 2015 at 11:49

I'd consider the various representations to all be equally valid as long as people use b and B correctly.

Network rates should always be presented as bits.

Chimp Paradox · 7 Jan 2015 at 11:49

TheVoice said:
Although usually it's expressed as MB/s or MB/sec to avoid such confusion.

Are you joking? That adds to the confusion!!!!

TheVoice · 7 Jan 2015 at 11:55

Chimp Paradox said:
Are you joking? That adds to the confusion!!!!

I wouldn't say so. 38Mbps and 38MBps are easier to confuse than 38Mbps and 38MB/sec. But maybe it's just me!

meandu229 · 7 Jan 2015 at 11:56

TheVoice said:
I wouldn't say so. 38Mbps and 38MBps are easier to confuse than 38Mbps and 38MB/sec. But maybe it's just me!

But thats not what you typed.

TheVoice · 7 Jan 2015 at 12:11

meandu229 said:
But thats not what you typed.

Yes it was, in reply to the post I quoted.

Chimp Paradox · 7 Jan 2015 at 13:35

TheVoice said:
Yes it was, in reply to the post I quoted.

Not it wasn't, you wrote

MB/s or MB/sec

I agree with your corrected post however!

TheVoice · 7 Jan 2015 at 13:51

Chimp Paradox said:
Not it wasn't, you wrote

MB/s or MB/sec

Correct, both of which are more commonly used than 'MBps' which was the post I replied to.

Pointless anyway, we obviously agree regardless of any misinterpretation.

Chimp Paradox · 7 Jan 2015 at 16:47

bledd · 7 Jan 2015 at 16:53

When it comes to translating network speeds into windows transfer speeds, divide by 8.

So a 100Mbit connection = 12.5MB/s. That that's roughly 3x mp3 songs per second. A full 700MB CD in 56 seconds.

Chimp Paradox · 7 Jan 2015 at 17:05

now learning the difference bledd, it makes you realise how slow non fibre broadband is!!! I would say 38mps is JUST enough for the most part. ONLY JUST

tom_e · 7 Jan 2015 at 17:07

Chimp Paradox said:
now learning the difference bledd, it makes you realise how slow non fibre broadband is!!! I would say 38mps is JUST enough for the most part. ONLY JUST

I was on 30mbps up until a couple of months ago when VM bumped me up to 50mbps for nothing and that was absolutely fine, maybe it's because I started with computers in the days of 56k so nothing will ever be that bad

Chimp Paradox · 7 Jan 2015 at 18:08

hehe know what you mean with dial up. 40 minutes to download a 3meg mp3

bremen1874 · 7 Jan 2015 at 18:16

7 to 10 minutes unless you're going back into the 9.6Kbps days.

Steveocee · 7 Jan 2015 at 19:23

Chimp Paradox said:
now learning the difference bledd, it makes you realise how slow non fibre broadband is!!! I would say 38mps is JUST enough for the most part. ONLY JUST

It's not though. If you actually analyse bandwidth usage, you need minimal bandwidth to pull down a web page, HD streaming can be done on a 5Mbps connection.

If you have a 100Mb connection, it doesn't always run at 100Mb. I think I could easily cope on a 10/10 rather than my 152/12

Ryan-3 · 7 Jan 2015 at 19:41

Chimp Paradox said:
it makes you realise how slow non fibre broadband is!!!

It is only slow when compared to your hard drives or your internal network.

bledd · 7 Jan 2015 at 20:51

Chimp Paradox said:
now learning the difference bledd, it makes you realise how slow non fibre broadband is!!! I would say 38mps is JUST enough for the most part. ONLY JUST

Meh, I'd be happy on a 1Mbit connection if it was stable. Decent ping is more important to me.