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Title: Mbps and GHz
Post by: methodsboy on December 20, 2008, 05:45:48 pm
hey
which one is the bigger unit : Mbps or GHz?
 :-\
Title: Re: Mbps and GHz
Post by: kurrymuncher on December 20, 2008, 05:51:10 pm
i really thought you would know this methodsboy.
Title: Re: Mbps and GHz
Post by: shinny on December 20, 2008, 05:55:26 pm
Huh. Aren't they measuring totally different things? Mbps=internet speed, GHz=CPU clock speed? (Never done IT though)
Title: Re: Mbps and GHz
Post by: ell on December 20, 2008, 05:57:00 pm
You can't really compare, they're two different things. It's like asking: what's larger, 20 km or 20°C?
Title: Re: Mbps and GHz
Post by: methodsboy on December 20, 2008, 06:06:10 pm
oh ok
Title: Re: Mbps and GHz
Post by: vce08 on December 20, 2008, 06:12:49 pm
Quote from: shinny on December 20, 2008, 05:55:26 pm
Huh. Aren't they measuring totally different things? Mbps=internet speed, GHz=CPU clock speed? (Never done IT though)

yea i think andy is correct.
Title: Re: Mbps and GHz
Post by: danieltennis on December 20, 2008, 06:20:25 pm
old methodsboy, they are completely different units and they dont relate to each whatsoever lol
Title: Re: Mbps and GHz
Post by: methodsboy on December 20, 2008, 09:05:00 pm
sorry guys i was just checking.....im trying to work out which transmission media was the fastest and they had those units
so thats why i was confused
Title: Re: Mbps and GHz
Post by: kurrymuncher on December 20, 2008, 09:06:25 pm
yep, yep, wateva you say kiran lol :P
Title: Re: Mbps and GHz
Post by: methodsboy on December 20, 2008, 09:09:29 pm
hey !
dnt use my fake name, its methodsboy to you
tharaka
Title: Re: Mbps and GHz
Post by: excal on February 08, 2009, 03:17:19 pm
Quote from: daniel. on December 20, 2008, 06:20:25 pm
old methodsboy, they are completely different units and they dont relate to each whatsoever lol

Actually, they do - except the translation is deep within arcane electrical engineering knowledge in network signal analysis. It's certainly not a linear relationship, that's for sure.

(any amount of data (bps) sent down a line is carried by an electrical signal that has a frequency (Hz)).