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[sergio]

Beware!
On some sites Gb/month means Gbits/month.
When I first time found $2 per Gb/mont I thought this is amazing price, but when I started investigating that site, I found that they all transfers measure in Gbits, and price for one Gbyte/month will be no 2$/month but 16$/month. Which is not acceptable. I think it is a trickery set by some sites (such as awwm.com, and it's resellers are following same path)

[Félix C.Courtemanche]

It definately is... but it should logically always be that way.

Traditionnaly line speed, ethernet cards etc are all in bits and HD is in bytes.

Now that mean that a T1 isnt 1,5 MB/sec but in fact around 200kb/sec since it is in bits.

But since most people on the web now were used to bytes first, everyone has to switch here and there so that it is easy to understand

General rule:
MB/sec means megabytes per seconds
mbps means megabits per seconds

if it is writte GB you must expect gigabytes, not gigabits which would be gb

ewh.
generally the bytes are written with a / and bits with a p
so...
5 mb/sec is 5 megabytes
5 mbps is 5 megabits

Confused yet? (I am)

The best trick is... ASK the host.

[Learner]

That was another enlightening post up there. Now I know what to watch out for... and what it means as well!!!

Learner

[akashik]

<---- *psst* what about poor lil Greg?

Greg Moore
http://www.akashik.net

[Learner]

... LOL !!!!!

OLE !!!!! Welcome to the mountain top too, Greg

Guess the peak is gonna get real crowded soon!!!

Learner

[webfors]

I want to be on Mt. Olympus too. How many posts do you need?

[BC]

It's currently 200 posts, but the mods and I will have further discussions with Matt to stretch the no. of posts further, as we feel the current no. of posts probably aren't adequate.

e.g. Look at Sitepoint's forums http://www.sitepointforums.com - you need around 1500 posts to be an evangelist. I'm not saying we'll put it impossibly out of reach, but the no. of posts will probably double.