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Originally Posted by cyrnel
The little-b/big-B confusion isn't helped by misuse in software and online publications. It's to the point one can only be certain through experience with each source.
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Yep. Many magazines (even popular ones like Wired, Computer Gaming World, etc.) say megabits constantly when they're actually referring to megabytes. This doesn't help the understanding at all. I've had many teachers say that newer computers have 512 megabits of RAM, etc. It's truly frightening how big of a confusion can happen when people interchange bit and byte.
The other guys are correct -- cable and DSL connections are measured in megabits 99% of the time while browsers report the actual download speed in bytes.
-Lasereth