[Ns-bugs] [Bug 433] DataRate: kBps and kB/s have wrong multipliers.

Fri Dec 5 07:58:00 PST 2008

http://www.nsnam.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=433

Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjcarneiro at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjcarneiro at gmail.com>  2008-12-05 10:58:00 EDT ---
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I know this is confusing, but IMHO 1 kbit/s == 1000 bit/s, and 1 kB == 1024
byte.
At least this is how traditionally network engineers deal with the unit
prefixes; when dealing with bitrates, k means 1000, when dealing with
information (bytes) k means 1024.

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