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		pbhjpbhj 59 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways You can do 100s of mbps with a flag and a pair of binoculars... Sorry, pet peeve: do you mean MB/s, Mb/s, or something else? Probably not the milli-bits per second (mbps) that you wrote.

Nextgrid 59 days ago | [–]

I mean Mb/s; just reusing the same terminology a lot of speed tests use (they report in Mb/s but often refer to it as "mbps").

dbalatero 59 days ago | [–]

mbps has always been used for megabits

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