The Germans have made a 512 GBPS fiber optic network - Polidicks

[QUOTE=FuDy;35023366]0.3 Mbit/s here[/QUOTE] 0.2mbits/s here [img]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-smith.gif[/img]

ITT: People don't understand the difference between Mb and MB.

[QUOTE=Peter;35081848]0.2mbits/s here [img]http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-smith.gif[/img][/QUOTE] That sucks. I thought my island connection of around 2Mbits/s was bad. I can usually download at around 233kB/s. Which is fairly slow. But I did once download a game at almost 500kBytes/s!

there's two types of megabyte?

The Germans always make good stuff.

[QUOTE=AK'z;35081946]there's two types of megabyte?[/QUOTE] MB=Megabyte Mb=Megabit = 1/8 Megabyte

[QUOTE=eternalflamez;35081999]MB=Megabyte Mb=Megabit = 1/8 Megabyte[/QUOTE] hehehh..... you're shitting me Why don't companies just TELL me, that I'll have a "certain" download speed. That confuses millions of people.

Advertising. "We have 100Mb down!" While actually you get 12MB, which is max, and usually you never reach that anyway...

[QUOTE=AK'z;35082229]hehehh..... you're shitting me Why don't companies just TELL me, that I'll have a "certain" download speed. That confuses millions of people.[/QUOTE] Because megabits is more. Higher number = people want it more.

And I thought my 120Mbit/s are fast. Usually they advertise with 16.000kbit/s, 32.000kbit/s etc.

[QUOTE=AK'z;35082229]hehehh..... you're shitting me Why don't companies just TELL me, that I'll have a "certain" download speed. That confuses millions of people.[/QUOTE] Advertising. They put a 'm' and a 'b' and people think Megabyte, but it's not false advertising because they technically told the people Mb which meant Megabit.

There is no reason for the concept of "megabit" to exist.

[QUOTE=AK'z;35082300]There is no reason for the concept of "megabit" to exist.[/QUOTE] Bits and Bytes are different things.

[QUOTE=AK'z;35082300]There is no reason for the concept of "megabit" to exist.[/QUOTE]Uh yes there is, entire computing world hangs on bits.

[QUOTE=Chubbs;35082374]Bits and Bytes are different things.[/QUOTE] In terms of selling internet then. In the UK, pretty much everyone has a broadband connection. Yet those on 2Mb are only receiving 100kbps download speed. Makes me sick to deceive poor people. :(

[QUOTE=AK'z;35082575]In terms of selling internet then. In the UK, pretty much everyone has a broadband connection. Yet those on 2Mb are only receiving 100kbps download speed. Makes me sick to deceive poor people. :([/QUOTE] I've been to both Uk and Ireland and damn their internet infrastructure is terrible. It's either slow or expensive or both. I guess that's what you get by living on an island.

[QUOTE=AK'z;35082300]There is no reason for the concept of "megabit" to exist.[/QUOTE] You have no idea how digital signals work if you think that.

I live on a remote Scottish island. There are no fibre-optics and 3G doesn't exist here. Internet sucks.

I heard Romanians and Bulgarians are master race when it comes to internet speed (on average)...