The National Post screwed up bits and bytes in the Feb. 26 paper in an article on broadband ISP download speeds.
They took the data from broadbandreports.com which clearly states that it is measuring kilobits, however somehow all the references in the article became kilobytes. They further screwed things up by defining kilobytes per second as "kbps" which in fact is kilobits per second.
There is a good explanation of download "speed" on the broadbandreports.com site.
Posted by Paul at February 28, 2004 08:45 PM