On Thursday 10 March 2011, Liviu Andronic wrote:
Seriously though, wouldn't it be better to have the bandwidth control
limits specified in kilo bytes instead of the current kilo bits? This
would avoid confusing naive users such as myself. Much of what happens
on
a computer or on the internet is in kilobytes nowadays (downloads in a
web
browser, file sizes in a file manager, etc.), so I would guess that your
average John Doe would be happier with defining settings in kilobytes. I
for one have never quite made a difference between bits and bytes, well,
up until now. :)
I don't think I've ever used an application that uses byte rates for
codecs,
so linphone being the only one would be mighty confusing! 3G, Cable and
ADSL
speeds are all advertised as bit rates too, at least here in the UK.