RE: TI-H: Radio switch
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RE: TI-H: Radio switch
You have to use the units. These days with OC148, people could think you
mean 32,000 MB a second.
>That's nice. What the hell are you talking about?
>
>At 07:47 AM 1/11/99 -0900, you wrote:
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>>weight of a human. 98kg there isn't units
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>>>But if you say 32k, logically it means 32 thousand bits.... if you say 32K,
>>>then logically it means 32 thousand bytes... it is meaningful too... If I
>>>go around telling people "yea, I can get 1 "mb" in one second", then they'd
>>>be like "cool, you can download linux in 10 minutes?!?" then you'd be like
>>>"no, more like 80 minutes" -- see the diff :)
>>>
>>>At 12:53 AM 1/10/99 -0900, you wrote:
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>>>>its the b. A big B is a byte and a small b is a bit. the k is just the
>>>>multiple of the unit.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hmmm.. I have been... My BIG K (as in 150K/sec) is as KiloBYTE per sec. A
>>>>>small k to me is kiloBIT per sec. So, if you wanted to know what I was
>>>>>getting at with that 150K/sec, it would really be 1200k/sec or in mbit
>>>>>terms, 1.17 mbit/sec. Essentially, that would be a T1, being that they
>are
>>>>>~1.54 mbit/sec. being slightly loaded with other people. See? I know what
>>>>>I'm talking about.. :)
>>>>>
>>>>>Also,
>>>>>Mbit(Mb)=Megabit
>>>>>MB=Megabyte
>>>>>Kb(or just k)=kilobit
>>>>>KB(or K)=kilobyte
>>>>>
>>>>>This sound ok?
>>>>>
>>>>>-jeff
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>From: owner-ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>>>>>[mailto:owner-ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org] On Behalf Of Rosyna
>>>>>Sent: Sunday, January 10, 1999 2:23 AM
>>>>>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>>>>>Subject: RE: TI-H: Radio switch
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>You guys must be missing something too. When you see 10Mb/sec or
>>>>>256k/sec when referring to something that has to do with any kind of
>>>>>network, ALWAYS divide by 8 to get real world figures.
>>>>>256k/sec=32k/sec not that fast 1.5Mb/sex=128k/sec see that is why
>>>>>cable is so dang fast.
>>>>>
>>>>>At approximately 10:53 PM +0000GMT on the day Earth People call
>>>>>1/9/99, Dan declared:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yea, that is what I was thinking - I didn't actually think you meant a
>>>>>full
>>>>>> blown T3... I don't think download.com has a T3, they might, but with
>>the
>>>>>> number of people downloading files (and multiple files), I'll bet they
>>>>>have
>>>>>> a direct connection backbone... but whatever... 10Mbit is good... JUST
>>as
>>>>>> long as it isn't @Home. Everyone knows they blow arse...
>>>>>
>>>>>---
>>>>>I pledge allegiance to the Mac of Apple Computer Incorporated, and to
>>>>>the developers for which it stands, one platform, under Jobs,
>>>>>indestructible, with creativity and multimedia for all.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>-Dan
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>-Dan
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