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• At 2010.09.25 00:48, MonMon said:

  OMG i'm shocked just knew that im a computer programming for nothing lol Love the video ty !

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• At 2010.09.26 22:07, Summer said:

  I never knew that!!!!!!
  thank god I don't use that company!!

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  • At 2010.09.26 22:10, Casttro said:

    its not only that comp ... All companies

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• At 2010.10.31 02:44, Q8GEEK said:

  OK, don't take me for a company defender, I hate them with passion fruit (Specially Zain)

  Short verssion:
  They're only using Byte rather than Bit is because customers are already confused, confusing them more won't do any good, ask any ISP representitive and they will tell you what your speed will be and will get it accurately and will explain why they aren't doing the bits and bytes (Excluding the uneducated representatives ofcourse).

  Instead of doing "You're not paying for 21.6MBps", you should've done "You're not paying for ~27.648MBps (Not calculated right, on fever)". And true, some companies aren't getting you that speed and their argument is "It's up to that speed, but we cant guarantee you that speed" which I understand, but my 7.2Mbps VIVA is giving me around 750KBps and 250KBps in my bad times (Ofcourse depends on where I'm downloading from). Not quite the right speed, but it satisfies me and much better than the other providers in the same class.

  Long version:
  First, Kuwait isn't the first, last neither the only country that shows the speed in MB rather than Mb. There are many companies across this planet are doing the same. Why? So that they won't add up more confusion to how confused they are. After all, we're still dealing with people saying "Explower" instead of "Explorer", so bits and BYTES won't do any good. I'm not saying they shouldn't start using it, but I'm saying its for the best at this time.

  Second, there IS not 21MB or 7.2MB. And there's no 100MB and 1000GB (Not even when you connect your Ethernet cable). End users (Customers) can ask the ISP representatives about the actual download speed and they'd give an accurate number.

  Ask a Zain representative (Since Zain is your example, you can do that pretty much to any other ISP) and ask them what will the download speed be. Leaving the uneducated barely graduated from high school employees aside since themselves would mix up, they will give you the accurate speed which is around 900KB in 7.2Mbs and thrice the speed in 21.6Mb.

  Which gets us to how you should've actually did this: checking if your speed would actually reach that or not. Even with that, they'd say it's up to that speed and they can't guarantee it due to the GSM\GPRS\3G\whatever technology where priority goes to the newest end connected (And some cap by ISP)

  I personally subscribed to VIVA's 7.2Mbps connection and I get 500KBps~800KBps and ~250KBps at bad times (That, ofcourse depends on who am I downloading from). Not totally the speed I've subscribed with, but it satisfies me.

  Nice slideshow btw, could've just let it play in fullscreen which is neater (Is neater even a word?)

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  • At 2010.10.31 03:22, Q8GEEK said:

    Now that a friend of mine noted something to me, they actually DID write in Mbps not MBps...

    Taking that into consideration, check every single internet provider across the planet, you won't find "Megabits" or "Megabytes". You'll just see Mbps and MBps. You can even check with Comcast.

    I apologize for the wrong long reply, but my statement stands:
    We are indeed paying for 21.6Mbps not 21.6MBps.

    You subscribe for 7.2Mbps, you get 7.2Mbps. Writing "م" before a name means "مهندس" not "محاسب". There are many things that doesn't need to be clarified -_-;

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  • At 2010.10.31 19:39, Casttro said:

    Thanks Mr. Q8GEEK .. i just came from UK and we are using the speed(MB not Mb)

    Thanks again Mr Q8GEEK i like that a kuwaiti guy knows all that technical infos

    stay tuned in NumberXIV.com and you will watch my video about Viva Just right now

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• At 2010.10.31 03:15, Eggs said:

  I'm trying to capture your end meaning of the video, because every company in the world uses bits instead of bytes to describe internet speed (currently in the US).

  So i do not think it is about Kuwait, its more like the whole world is doing that. I do not know reason behind that but that is all i know.

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  • At 2010.10.31 19:41, Casttro said:

    Like What i said i Just Came from Uk and they are using MB not Mb .. and kuwait companies
    Should let ppl know the difference between MB and Mb even the call center

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