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128 meg not fast!
Authored by: Wol on Friday, July 27 2012 @ 10:40 AM EDT
When I were in flat cap ...

But I can remember installing ISDN and thinking 64 *K* each way was fast!

What do people NEED all this bandwidth for, for pete's sake... (says me who on
several occasions has downloaded DVD's worth of stuff ...)

Cheers,
Wol

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NOT 1 Gigabyte sec. Instead 128 mb sec
Authored by: greed on Friday, July 27 2012 @ 10:57 AM EDT
The OP has it right: Gb/s is gigabit/second. GB/s is gigabyte/second.

SI isn't Windows: case matters. You don't want to mess up masses measured in mg
with those in Mg, for example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_rate_units

And Google's Kansas City fibre is symmetric, 1Gb/s each way. Want that! Heck,
I'd be happy with 10Mb/s each way, rather than 50 down and 1 up.

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NOT 1 Gigabyte sec. Instead 128 mb sec
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 27 2012 @ 11:05 AM EDT
That's what they said. Lowercase b is for bits. Uppercase B is for bytes.

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NOT 1 Gigabyte sec. Instead 128 mb sec
Authored by: JamesK on Friday, July 27 2012 @ 11:47 AM EDT
{
GigaBIT per second not GigaByte per second. This is 128 mb
second.
}

Ummm... In common practice B=bytes and b=bits.

The article clearly states "gigabit", which is 125 megabytes/second,
ignoring overhead.

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NOT very slow at all
Authored by: Tufty on Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 10:35 PM EDT
Only 500 times faster than what I get.

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