[pve-devel] network card MBit/s vs MB/s

[Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG]

Am 18.02.2013 09:11, schrieb Dietmar Maurer:
>>> Besides, is there any other reason why 'Bits' are better that 'Bytes'?
>>
>> No the users are just used to it. Even my grandfather knows that his network
>> card is 100Mbit/s so even he would always put in 100 or 1000 or
>> 10 and thinks in Mbit/s.
> 
> I doubt your grandfather will administrate your cluster ;-)
> 
> I observed that many young people are confused if you talk about 'Baud' or 'Bits/s'.

Yes, sure but they know networking stuff is always mbit/s even wlan es
mbit/s ;-)

Maybe a poll in the PVE Forum?

Stefan