Kurushio Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 Stupid question, but does µTorrent measure dl/ul in bits or bytes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha-Toxic Posted February 26, 2007 Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 bytesthe only thing in uT that is in bits is the speed guide (or at least I can't think of anything else) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurushio Posted February 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2007 And that makes it quite confusing when every ISP seems to measure in bits... It took me a while to understand why I couldn't dl faster then 1Mb/s when my ISP says that I have 8mb down and 1 up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 Making numbers look higher make sense when you're selling a product or service The way I see it, it's the same "issue" with the companies selling blank DVDs or hard drives (gigabits vs gigabytes) :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 DVDs and HDDs use gigabytes, but they sell it to you using decimal prefixes instead of binary prefixes, which inflates the number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 YOWZA. I really need to be more careful about what I type -- meant gibibytes vs gigabytes :| Doesn't change the parallel, though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 Hard drive companies aren't lying as much as might first appear...pre-formated capacity of hard drives is considerably more than after-formating capacity. The FAT tables for FAT32 and database structure for NTFS take up considerable space indeed and may reflect the "missing" space the formated hard drives lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 Yep, but it doesn't change the fact that when they sell 120 gigabytes, they're selling ~114GiB Oh, and congratulations on the promotion, Switeck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 NTFS's metadata doesn't really take up that much space. Certainly not what can account for a 6GB loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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