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Old 12-05-2006, 03:45   #27
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Re: 10 meg what download speed should i get

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Originally Posted by James Henry
In ntl and Telewest land a Mbit is considered to be 1024000 bits, the cap on the modems is set at 10,240,000bps downstream and 512,000 / 384,000bps upstream.

A kilobyte and megabyte are actually 1,000 bytes and 1,000,000 bytes, however for old school reasons the old definitions are still used - in the 'official' standards these are actually kibibytes and mibibytes.
Just thought I'd mention that if we were getting hard core nit picky
personally, i like nibbles


oldskool is 2 nibbles, 8bit days , long live the ZX81.. 16k real-BYTES wobbly rampack, a must.
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