Megabips ?

Post by **Iccy** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:08 pm

I could have sworn that it was a unit of measurement or am i wrong here. I was talking to someone who has a 54mbps router an they are telling me that they can transfer 54 megabytes a second and i told them know, its 500kb a second, the 54mbps is bips not bytes.

Did i just hear that some where in the past and was completely wrong is does megabips actualy exist.

Post by **MKJ** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:11 pm

MegaBitsPerSecond. mbps

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:16 pm

Iccy wrote:I could have sworn that it was a unit of measurement or am i wrong here. I was talking to someone who has a 54mbps router an they are telling me that they can transfer 54 megabytes a second and i told them know, its 500kb a second, the 54mbps is bips not bytes.

Did i just hear that some where in the past and was completely wrong is does megabips actualy exist.

don't you do IT for a living?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:46 pm

Post by **Deathshroud** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:12 pm

LMAO, bips...thats a new one.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 5:13 pm

maybe you mean flops?

edit: oh, no you don't you simpleton

Post by **R00k** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:01 pm

8 bits in a byte, buddy.

Post by **Grudge** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:13 pm

Bibimbap

Post by **Dek** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:09 pm

Iccy wrote: Did i just hear that some where in the past and was completely wrong is does megabips actualy exist.

Don't feel bad, alot of folks think it's megabips..

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=n ... q=megabips

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:16 pm

Dek wrote:
Iccy wrote: Did i just hear that some where in the past and was completely wrong is does megabips actualy exist.
Don't feel bad, alot of folks think it's megabips..

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=n ... q=megabips

i think he should feel bad because, iirc, he's in IT.

Post by **Pooinyourmouth** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:30 pm

You measure how long a 5 knuckle shuffle is in megafaps.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:35 pm

Pooinyourmouth wrote:You measure how long a 5 knuckle shuffle is in megafaps.

Sometimes I get 5 faps per second (fps).

Post by **losCHUNK** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:40 pm

ToxicBug wrote:
Pooinyourmouth wrote:You measure how long a 5 knuckle shuffle is in megafaps.
Sometimes I get 5 faps per second (fps).

lol n00b

Post by **Iccy** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 10:56 pm

Naaa i dont feel bad at all. Turns out bips was a adopted word to explain bits per second way back in the day, you know when i knew and learned this stuff, you know, back when most of you were either not born or didnt know what a computer was. So i just heard the term early in my tech career. Day to day i never used it, i always used bits and bytes, but when someone asked me what the bps stands for, i just got confused as to the term.

Seriously though, thnx. I figured it out on my own, but thnx still. Kinda dates me i guess cause no one knew what i meant lol

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