• @simple@lemm.ee
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    12 years ago

    I wish we can all move to MB/s and get rid of the endless confusion on names

    • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      2 years ago

      The reason we don’t is because the network does not care how the files you transfer are formatted.

      It measure the amount of bits it can transfer.

      Whether the file in question is for example a text document (8bit) or a HEIF (10bit)