100Mbps Ethernet Speed/Efficiency

[T. Ribbrock]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 08:19:49AM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
[...]
> FYI, a few things which come in handy:

>         1. In communications, everything is in powers of 10. So K = 1,000, 
>            M = 1,000,000, and 56 Kbps = 56,000. In computing, however,
>            everything is in powers of 2, so K = 1,024, and M =
>            1,048,576.

>         2. A bit should be represented by a lowercase "b" and a byte as an 
>            uppercase "B". So the notation above is incorrect... 100
>            Mbps should have a "b" for bits.

>         3. Metric prefixes like K, M, and G should always be capitalized.
[...]

Actually, I've learned that differently: "K" stands for x1024 like in KB
(KiloByte = 1024 bytes) and "k" stands for x1000 (like km = kilometer =
1000meters). Also, there's of course "M" (10^6) and "m" (10^-3) as
prefix... ;-)

Cheerio,

Thomas
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