On 8/15/16, Roman Mamedov rm@romanrm.net wrote:
To me these seem to be just two loosely related facts, the latter merely I don't see any "network calculations" being presented.
Was an fyi for the OP, who may or may not be doing calculations, regardless of presentation to us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte: "The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. Its recommended unit symbol is MB." MB/s is a long-accepted shorthand for Megabyte per second, and yes, Mb/s is megabit per second. But please, take your "MiB" lunacy elsewhere.
The current published standards of standards bodies, you would find that "M" for binary is deprecated in favor of Mi, thus making MiB no such lunacy. Then there is proper context, where manufacturers are getting sued, and some unixes and apps are correcting their stats output, be it in underlying quantities and/or in naming with bits(b) for network in decimal (for interfacing with network providers and hardware), and bytes(B) for disk and ram in binary (for interfacing with read() call of 2^3=8 bits (byte) [1]). MB is thus bit of deprecated legacy mashup. What is lunacy is perpetuating legacy ambiguous terminology and context against standards. Things like mars climate orbiter happen when you do that.
[1] Though I'd suggest having switches to optional display disk/ram rates per sec in decimal bits for easier network throughput checks at those location in system.)
No worries, the next pint of beer is on me, while I bitch about the "8GB" stick I tested having far less than 8E9 bytes ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60027 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_80000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix http://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/ http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html http://members.optus.net/alexey/prefBin.xhtml