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Gilgamesh on 26 July 2012

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Chris Hu on 27 July 2012

I'm guessing it will be another 10 years before they have anything close to that speed in my area.



zarx on 27 July 2012

Wow that a lot of porn per second



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Galaki on 27 July 2012

Bits are usually written in lower case b and bytes in upper case B.
Regardless, when talking about bandwidth, almost all the time, it's bits and not bytes.



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TWRoO on 27 July 2012
wfz said:
TWRoO said:

Ah... for some reason I thought it was the other way around.... which explains Virgin Media's connection is actually just a tenth of the Google one (assuming their website has the correct termination)

Use this as a failsafe:

I have never, ever, ever seen ISP's use BYTES. Ever. All of them list speeds in Bits in order to appear faster than they actually are. Bits are approximately 1/8th the size of a Byte.

Clarifying again for everyone:
Mb = Megabit (What every Internet Service Providor uses)

MB = Megabyte (What all file sizes are calculated in)

1MB = 8Mb. A "bit" is approximately 1/8th the size of a "byte."

That last bit isn't quite phrased correctly.

A bit is exactly 1/8th of a byte (nowadays anyway, according to wiki a byte used to mean however many bits it took to code a character)... the approximation stuff comes when the kilos and Megas get involved with bytes (ie 1MB is approx. 1000kB)



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happydolphin on 27 July 2012
wfz said:
happydolphin said:
TWRoO said:
Virgin Media's 100Mb (that's byte, not bit) fiber optic service here in the UK is much cheaper than that, and not much slower (100Mb compared to 128Mb)

I think the google one is 1Gb though.


You both need to stop that and get your acronyms right! You are NOT allowed to mess up acronyms in a thread where I have already explicitly described what each means. :P

lower case b = bit. Upper case B = byte.

 

Google explicitly mentions everywhere that their service is a Gb.   ---> Bit

 

EDIT: Also, Happydolphin, as I pointed out earlier, the very first sentence of this thread says "gigabit" in it. :P

:) But that's exactly what I said! :D 1Gb, , ,, 1 Gygabit! :#



darkknightkryta on 27 July 2012
SvennoJ said:
That would be nice. I recently checked out Bell Fibre in Canada. Upto 175Mbps and similar awesome tv package. Only available in certain n eighbourhoods it Toronto atm though. It will probably be multiple decades before fibre reaches our town of 11k. Checking for our area only comes up with upto 5mbps availability and 65gb download cap.
Cable it is until then at 10mbps with a shitty bandwidth cap. I have to wait until next month before I can download the rest of my steam summer sale purchases and no more Netflix.


See if Acanac or Teksavvy is in your area.  They piggyback off of Bell and Rogers.  They also give you high/unlimited caps.



happydolphin on 27 July 2012
Squilliam said:
You're not in Kansas anymore.

Buckle your seatbelt Dorothy, cause Kansas is going bye bye :)



SvennoJ on 27 July 2012
darkknightkryta said:
SvennoJ said:
That would be nice. I recently checked out Bell Fibre in Canada. Upto 175Mbps and similar awesome tv package. Only available in certain n eighbourhoods it Toronto atm though. It will probably be multiple decades before fibre reaches our town of 11k. Checking for our area only comes up with upto 5mbps availability and 65gb download cap.
Cable it is until then at 10mbps with a shitty bandwidth cap. I have to wait until next month before I can download the rest of my steam summer sale purchases and no more Netflix.


See if Acanac or Teksavvy is in your area.  They piggyback off of Bell and Rogers.  They also give you high/unlimited caps.

Yep tried them. Teksavvy only offers voip in my area and Acanac only dsl at max 6mbps during prime time.
I guess downloading at half speed is faster then waiting over a week for my download limit to reset.
Too bad it doesn't carry over, there are months we use less then 25% of our limit. Netflix plus Steam summer sale is a bad combination :)

Back on topic, it's nice to see fibre is finally starting to come to consumers. I remember it being promised in 1998 as the thing that would revolutionize our internet access. 14 years later and Toronto is finally starting to get it.



Netyaroze on 27 July 2012

I just got 50 Mbit through 4g. (Upgraded from 0.35Mbit). And I already feel outdated. My only hope is for them to increase bandwiths to 400 Mbit soon. Sadly this is max speed for 4g.