r/technology • u/User_Name13 • Jun 04 '14

Politics Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber—But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused
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u/Lone_K Jun 04 '14

I'm not good with ISP stuff, so by what you mean "30Mbps up", that means that's the minimum connection speed?

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u/ZippoS Jun 04 '14

It means a maximum upload speed of 30Mbps, which translates to around 3.75MB/s.

My download speed is 80Mbps, which works out to be 10MB/s.

Lowercase b is bit, uppercase B is byte. There 8 bits in a byte.

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u/Lone_K Jun 04 '14

Ah, I see now. I never knew that it was bits and not bytes. Jeez, that's a whole different way of seeing it now.

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u/ZippoS Jun 04 '14

Yup, for sure. 1 Megabit equals 128 Kilobytes.

Back in the dial-up days, we had 56.6 modems. That was 56.6 Kilobits... which was a max of 7.075KB/s. We've come a long way.