----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Gould" <don(a)bowenvale.co.nz> To: <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 2:22 PM Subject: [nznog] How many bytes is 50mb?
Does anyone know what the conventions are in NZ?
I'm writting a small data control system and I need to know how ISPs count data here.
I know the convention for a gig is 1000 mb.
1G = 1024M Except with Slingshot where they quote: (this is the only ISP I can find this) (http://www.slingshot.co.nz/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=999&tabid=11&subnav=21#usage) "To represent the speed on our Slingshot plans we refer to Megabits (Mb) where 1Mb is about 1000Kb." (speed represented strangely) "Data is usually measured in Megabytes (MB) where 1000MB equals a Gigabyte (GB)"