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>>janand+(OP)
I gotta say, I hate it when companies use “xxx bits per second”, whether its Mega or Giga nobody uses bits per second and for the average consumer it’s very unclear that this differs from bytes.

Having to explain to relatives and such that “yeah you actually have to divide that by 8” is a hassle and I get tricked by it subconsciously at times as well.

2 gbps meaning 250 megabytes per second is a SCAM. A marketing sham at it’s finest.

“I have 100 mbps download” meaning “I get 12.5 megabytes download per second” is ridiculous!!

>>yapyap+li
That’s not marketing related at all. It’s how network speeds have been measured long before ISPs were a business.

A byte per second is no more intuitive than a nibble per second or a bit per second. You might be used to byte as a power user because of storage, but I assure you that to regular people “256 gigabytes” is a meaningless number as well.