[asterisk-biz] Colocation and Bandwidth in HK

voipguy 2008asterisk05 at shawngardell.com
Thu May 22 16:13:57 CDT 2008


Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:46:07PM +0300, Moshe Maeir wrote:
>   
>>    Sam is using the right term!
>>    When you get a MB in bandwidth you are getting 1 megabit per second
>>     
>
>
> Please, no.  Conventionally, MB means Mega*byte* (possibly per second,
> if it's obvious you're talking about bandwidth).  Mb is mega*bit*, an
> 8:1 difference.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>   
I would think that MB would imply a bytes transferred billing method. 
The trailing s is vital because it shows bandwidth is billed by transfer 
rate.

Since VOIP is bidirectional, you have to ask providers using bytes 
transfer billing if they charge the total in and out.

--
v




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