Talk:Kibibit

Discussion about centralization took place at Talk:Binary prefix.

Shouldn't it say that 1 kibibit is 128 octets, and not necessarily 128 bytes? 8 bits is not universally defined as 1 byte, whereas the reader can determine for themselves if 1 octet = 1 byte in their world. Perhaps even make a note of this specificity and link it to an article on octet/bits/bytes?

No, our anonymous contributor is mistaken. It behooves us to avoid archaeism. It has been at least a decade since "byte" meant a variable number of bits, as outlined in articles kibibyte, byte and octet. Jim.henderson 13:43, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Is this really used? I mean, when talking about storage, the base unit is kibiBYTE and when talking about transmissions its kilo bits. Where is the term "Kibibit" used? 84.58.138.254 01:41, 5 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nope. It's not used, kilobyte and kibibyte are used for data capacity, and kilobit are used for data transmission. It's been a long time since kilobits (or megabits) were used for data capacity, and kibibit never was.76.112.254.142 (talk) 13:22, 15 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Evidence from Google Scholar suggests that Kibit/s is used. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 22:44, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]