▲ 590 ▼ ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over (arstechnica.com) submitted 1 month ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world 77 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) Giga is the Spanish word, so they might just use it because it's more bilingual friendly permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 point 1 month ago (1 child) I doubt it has anything to do with Spanish. The G in Gbps stands for giga because that's the SI prefix for 10 to the power of 9 or 1000 bigger than mega. Calling it a gig is just a lazy wording. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago I call it gig, it's a pretty common abbreviation IMO, like 32 gigs of ram. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 point 1 month ago (1 child) I doubt it has anything to do with Spanish. The G in Gbps stands for giga because that's the SI prefix for 10 to the power of 9 or 1000 bigger than mega. Calling it a gig is just a lazy wording. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago I call it gig, it's a pretty common abbreviation IMO, like 32 gigs of ram. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago I call it gig, it's a pretty common abbreviation IMO, like 32 gigs of ram. permalink fedilink source parent