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Freedom Kira:

--- Quote from: Midorinokage on July 02, 2010, 03:34:35 PM ---... too bad I am not getting a 12/2 ratio rather then a 12/1, that is pretty sad, another thing to dislike GCI about, only provider, high prices and imbalanced connection speeds.

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Just wanted to make sure you knew that the term "ratio" does not apply to connection speeds at all. It's a term used often in the torrenting community, but people will be confused if you mentioned ratio when talking about your connection speed.


--- Quote from: Midorinokage on July 02, 2010, 03:34:35 PM ---Surprisingly (and probably sad to most of you) I did not know that 8 bits equal a byte, I knew that 1024 MB equals a single GB and 1024 GB's equal a TB which applies even into the PB I have heard they already named (despite Petabyte sounding stupid) but no, I am no computer expert so this helped me a lot, seriously, a ton of help, thank you.

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Yeah, to be honest that is kinda sad, haha. I thought it was general knowledge to people who use the Internet a lot.
As for the prefix Peta, it follows metric naming conventions, though most metric measurements don't go over Mega.
You might not know because you live in the US with the Imperial system, though. For the rest of the world, the prefixes are the same as for distance, volume, mass, what have you, so it comes more naturally and sensibly, even though the Byte system uses powers of 2 instead of powers of 10.

Anyway, if you need anything else not answered in the Wiki, drop by and see what we can do.

Edit (July 8)
I don't know, I probably still wouldn't use the term "ratio" liberally like that. Especially since that is the ratio of your max speeds. So putting them into a ratio like that doesn't even give anyone useful information.

Also, Google is a big help with converting. If you want to convert anything, just type "<value> to <measurement>" in Google search. If you are using Chrome or Firefox, you can do this straight from the address bar. Like, "5ft to meters" or "10 USD to CAD" or whatever. Handy thing to know.

BTW I randomly came across your edit response by pure chance... you should probably respond in a new post next time, unless the most recent post is yours. I could have completely missed it.

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