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Twinsmommy
New Member
7 years ago

Help me understand please

I am trying to figure out if a local company is as fast as Hughes net. The local company, I believe goes over cellular. They are telling me they have no data caps but do cap speed and 4 megaBITS per ...
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MarkJFine
Professor
7 years ago

Not to be pedantic, but a Byte is actually counted as larger than 8bits. It's usually 10 or 11 depending upon additional parity/error correction bits and a possible stop bit.

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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
7 years ago
MarkJFine wrote:

Not to be pedantic, but a Byte is actually counted as larger than 8bits. It's usually 10 or 11 depending upon additional parity/error correction bits and a possible stop bit.

I was only speaking in the context of speed test results, not in practice.