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Old 09-20-2004, 12:05 AM
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It's especially difficult when people interchange b and B.

For everyone's future reference:
b is for bit, a 1 or 0
B is for byte, a peice of data made up of 8 bits.

That's why there is a big difference between a 1Mb connection and a 1MB connection. The latter is 8 times as fast...
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