Dual-WAN Router Recommendations
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@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
I've only noticed in the last few months a sudden shift in using it correctly to people thinking that random other letters could be used to mean bits or bytes. People not knowing how to use it at all I've always seen. But the K/k or M/m thing I've only noticed recently. Some new trendy misinformation I can only imagine. Like people trying to sound cool using "revert" to mean "reply".
In my experience, people tend to do what @thanksajdotcom said. They capitalize based on the Byte/bit capitalization.
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The k never means what Curtis said, though. He told someone it was kb/s not Kb/s meaning bits vs. bytes.
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@JaredBusch said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
I've only noticed in the last few months a sudden shift in using it correctly to people thinking that random other letters could be used to mean bits or bytes. People not knowing how to use it at all I've always seen. But the K/k or M/m thing I've only noticed recently. Some new trendy misinformation I can only imagine. Like people trying to sound cool using "revert" to mean "reply".
In my experience, people tend to do what @thanksajdotcom said. They capitalize based on the Byte/bit capitalization.
Yes, over the 30 years I've known about the notation, I've never seen it used any other way until the last few months. It's been an established standard for SO long.
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@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
The k never means what Curtis said, though. He told someone it was kb/s not Kb/s meaning bits vs. bytes.
Yeah, but Curtis...
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@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@JaredBusch said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
I've only noticed in the last few months a sudden shift in using it correctly to people thinking that random other letters could be used to mean bits or bytes. People not knowing how to use it at all I've always seen. But the K/k or M/m thing I've only noticed recently. Some new trendy misinformation I can only imagine. Like people trying to sound cool using "revert" to mean "reply".
In my experience, people tend to do what @thanksajdotcom said. They capitalize based on the Byte/bit capitalization.
Yes, over the 30 years I've known about the notation, I've never seen it used any other way until the last few months. It's been an established standard for SO long.
These settings were not standardized officially by IEEE until 2002. See the wiki link above. Or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541-2002
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@JaredBusch said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@JaredBusch said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
I've only noticed in the last few months a sudden shift in using it correctly to people thinking that random other letters could be used to mean bits or bytes. People not knowing how to use it at all I've always seen. But the K/k or M/m thing I've only noticed recently. Some new trendy misinformation I can only imagine. Like people trying to sound cool using "revert" to mean "reply".
In my experience, people tend to do what @thanksajdotcom said. They capitalize based on the Byte/bit capitalization.
Yes, over the 30 years I've known about the notation, I've never seen it used any other way until the last few months. It's been an established standard for SO long.
These settings were not standardized officially by IEEE until 2002. See the wiki link above.
Sure, but they were IT standards long before that. IEEE is just a private organization that decided to take that existing standard and publish it themselves.
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@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
I've only noticed in the last few months a sudden shift in using it correctly to people thinking that random other letters could be used to mean bits or bytes. People not knowing how to use it at all I've always seen. But the K/k or M/m thing I've only noticed recently. Some new trendy misinformation I can only imagine. Like people trying to sound cool using "revert" to mean "reply".
I've seen it longer than that but never consistently. It seems to fade in and out of popularity, especially when it comes to commercials for ISPs. And I hear revert instead of reply all the time, but that's because my support team is in India.
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@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
I've only noticed in the last few months a sudden shift in using it correctly to people thinking that random other letters could be used to mean bits or bytes. People not knowing how to use it at all I've always seen. But the K/k or M/m thing I've only noticed recently. Some new trendy misinformation I can only imagine. Like people trying to sound cool using "revert" to mean "reply".
I've seen it longer than that but never consistently. It seems to fade in and out of popularity, especially when it comes to commercials for ISPs. And I hear revert instead of reply all the time, but that's because my support team is in India.
YOu mean they try some fake English then.... revert to the real meaning again?
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@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
I've only noticed in the last few months a sudden shift in using it correctly to people thinking that random other letters could be used to mean bits or bytes. People not knowing how to use it at all I've always seen. But the K/k or M/m thing I've only noticed recently. Some new trendy misinformation I can only imagine. Like people trying to sound cool using "revert" to mean "reply".
I've seen it longer than that but never consistently. It seems to fade in and out of popularity, especially when it comes to commercials for ISPs. And I hear revert instead of reply all the time, but that's because my support team is in India.
YOu mean they try some fake English then.... revert to the real meaning again?
They are just doing the needful
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@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
I've only noticed in the last few months a sudden shift in using it correctly to people thinking that random other letters could be used to mean bits or bytes. People not knowing how to use it at all I've always seen. But the K/k or M/m thing I've only noticed recently. Some new trendy misinformation I can only imagine. Like people trying to sound cool using "revert" to mean "reply".
I've seen it longer than that but never consistently. It seems to fade in and out of popularity, especially when it comes to commercials for ISPs. And I hear revert instead of reply all the time, but that's because my support team is in India.
YOu mean they try some fake English then.... revert to the real meaning again?
They are just doing the needful
At least that is just an odd word, not a misuse of a real very specific one.
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Doing the needful is an uncommon turn of phrase, but totally appropriate.
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Thanks for the correction guys.
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@travisdh1 said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
Thanks for the correction guys.
Keeping you on your toes.
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@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
Doing the needful is an uncommon turn of phrase, but totally appropriate.
It's not commonly spoken anywhere outside of India that I've ever heard. At a former job, they gave all the customer-facing reps "American" names to use, and when I'd see: "Mrs. Jones, we've resolved this on our end. Please do the needful. -Mike" I would just facepalm, because, no. It was a dead giveaway but even after telling the staff that, it was not changed. Oh well, the company was dishonest anyways.
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The point was, misusing revert is wrong, using the needful is just regional. Unrelated items. And I've found the UK to use revert and defend it more than any other region.
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@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
The point was, misusing revert is wrong, using the needful is just regional. Unrelated items. And I've found the UK to use revert and defend it more than any other region.
Yeah but the Brits are weird. Lol
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@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
The point was, misusing revert is wrong, using the needful is just regional. Unrelated items. And I've found the UK to use revert and defend it more than any other region.
Yeah but the Brits are weird. Lol
I know - they like to get pissed and suck on fags...
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@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
The point was, misusing revert is wrong, using the needful is just regional. Unrelated items. And I've found the UK to use revert and defend it more than any other region.
Yeah but the Brits are weird. Lol
I know - they like to get pissed and suck on fags...
Accurate lol
Trying to quit my habit of taking drags on fags. Hard habit to break... -
@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@Dashrender said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@thanksajdotcom said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
@scottalanmiller said in Dual-WAN Router Recommendations:
The point was, misusing revert is wrong, using the needful is just regional. Unrelated items. And I've found the UK to use revert and defend it more than any other region.
Yeah but the Brits are weird. Lol
I know - they like to get pissed and suck on fags...
Accurate lol
Trying to quit my habit of taking drags on fags. Hard habit to break...TMI
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