> But I think we can trust people enough to not spend too long puzzling over whether "mb" means megabytes or megabits
Please don't assume this. I have the great pleasure working with network Engineers, who have apparently globally decided that bits are a perfectly reasonable measurement of throughput and react very differently to speed in Mb/s and MB/s. I'm not trying to be pedantic or say that this is how it should be, I'm just saying that people really do use both units and it is horribly confusing and anything you can do to not be ambiguous is appreciated.
Please don't assume this. I have the great pleasure working with network Engineers, who have apparently globally decided that bits are a perfectly reasonable measurement of throughput and react very differently to speed in Mb/s and MB/s. I'm not trying to be pedantic or say that this is how it should be, I'm just saying that people really do use both units and it is horribly confusing and anything you can do to not be ambiguous is appreciated.