If anyone is wondering how fast iiNet's new broadband2 is…
Faster than God.
6 Responses to “Nerd News”
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
All i hear is "computer says no"
balls says:
shit fool, thats some phat pipe - still I thought iinet were talking up 8mb/s
killer says:
Unfortunately that is a area of confusion that has been allowed to continue on the net for far too long… ISP's advertise their bandwidth in bits per second (e.g. 56 kilobits per second for dial-up), but size is almost always referred to in bytes (e.g. the above file is 70.72 megaBytes). There is 8 bits to a Byte and the convention is to have a lower case b when talking about bits and upper case B when talking about Bytes, although like all good internet conventions it is not always followed.
Generally most people think in terms of Bytes, 5MB for an mp3, 200GB hard drives et cetera, and as such most download software measures speed in Bytes per second. And so when iiNet talk about 8Mbps they actually mean a max download speed of 1MB/s.
The conspiracy theorists among us (you know who you are) would suggest that ISPs use bits per second to make the connection seem faster than it is. Others may suggest that the confusion was created and maintained by a secret society of nerds who are paid tithes from all the other nerds around to world so that the internet and computers remain unknowable to general members of the public.
hamish says:
god is pretty fast u know, faster than flipper for sure.
Barney says:
The use of bits per second would surely be a hangover from the early days when modems were moving at super slow transfer rates, hey? In those days, to the average Joe with a modem, 14400 bps or whatever was really just a number with no real context. The use of 1800 Bps wouldn't have made a lick of difference would it.
And it would have to be pretty silly to go trying to trick to the computer geeks among us (you know who YOU are) by using bigger numbers.
But if you want a real conspiracy theory, let's start talking about these Dockers injuries that sprung up during their *closed* training session yesterday. No Peter Bell? Herniated Haselby? No training sessions between now and Sunday? You do the maths… I smell skullduggery.
Blazin Billy Zabka says:
All i hear is "computer says no"
balls says:
shit fool, thats some phat pipe - still I thought iinet were talking up 8mb/s
killer says:
Unfortunately that is a area of confusion that has been allowed to continue on the net for far too long… ISP's advertise their bandwidth in bits per second (e.g. 56 kilobits per second for dial-up), but size is almost always referred to in bytes (e.g. the above file is 70.72 megaBytes). There is 8 bits to a Byte and the convention is to have a lower case b when talking about bits and upper case B when talking about Bytes, although like all good internet conventions it is not always followed.
Generally most people think in terms of Bytes, 5MB for an mp3, 200GB hard drives et cetera, and as such most download software measures speed in Bytes per second. And so when iiNet talk about 8Mbps they actually mean a max download speed of 1MB/s.
The conspiracy theorists among us (you know who you are) would suggest that ISPs use bits per second to make the connection seem faster than it is. Others may suggest that the confusion was created and maintained by a secret society of nerds who are paid tithes from all the other nerds around to world so that the internet and computers remain unknowable to general members of the public.
hamish says:
god is pretty fast u know, faster than flipper for sure.
Barney says:
The use of bits per second would surely be a hangover from the early days when modems were moving at super slow transfer rates, hey? In those days, to the average Joe with a modem, 14400 bps or whatever was really just a number with no real context. The use of 1800 Bps wouldn't have made a lick of difference would it.
And it would have to be pretty silly to go trying to trick to the computer geeks among us (you know who YOU are) by using bigger numbers.
But if you want a real conspiracy theory, let's start talking about these Dockers injuries that sprung up during their *closed* training session yesterday. No Peter Bell? Herniated Haselby? No training sessions between now and Sunday? You do the maths… I smell skullduggery.