The SCP "Bits versus Bytes Sales Hype" expose'!

All too often, it seems, zealous sales people chant the liturgy of their 5 Meg Download (D/L) rate and 360K Upload (U/L) rates to us. Cool beenz, it seemz, but probably not what your FTP program will report nor the classic Engineering standard notation! :-(.. . . . .

To see the advertised vs. "actuals", enter any value into any field and click any other field for actuals.  For example: try the often-advertised 5.0 in the "megabits/sec" slot or the 360 "speed" in the "kilobits/sec" slot to see what the "actuals" are. A common and typical example is as follows:
(3.0 MB = only 360 KiloBytes/sec and 360 Kilobits = only 44 KiloBytes/sec.)

"Speed" of data in units per second.
(The ratio is "8.192:1", BTW).
bits/sec ~kilobits/sec~ megabits/sec gigabits/sec
Bytes/sec *KiloBytes/sec* MegaBytes/sec GigaBytes/sec

~ is what they advertise in Kb/s
* is what you GET in standard KB/sec


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