Talk:Gigabit

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Discussion about centralization took place at Talk:Binary prefix.

"Gigabit networking" is the term used to describe 1000-Base-T ethernet networking. How do we reflect this here?

I just added a more meaningful byte value conversion, as that's something people would likely be looking for....

Why use Mb and Kb (which should be kb by the way)... when in the same article it is recommended to use Mbit and kbit?

If Gb is the same as 125 MB, why is it used instead of calling it 125 MB (such as '1250 MB Ethernet')? --217.70.211.11 (talk) 19:39, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's been a convention for decades to measure network connection bandwidth in bits, not bytes. Perhaps because it's simple to convert it to Hertz and back: 1 bit/s = 1 Hz. (although in modern data transmission, it's far more complicated). -- intgr [talk] 12:39, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It is not just a matter of convention, networking hardware transmits bit units, not byte units at the fundamental level. Some networking protocols require more than 8 transmitted bits to transmit one byte of data, e.g., RS-232 transmits parity and stop bits with each character. Kbrose (talk) 15:00, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]