A little Microsoft humor...

[virginsnow at vfemail.net]

> Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 17:00:55 -0400
> From: "Tom Buskey" <tom at buskey.name>

> On 5/19/07, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/19/07, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > over-subscribing them).  Overall, we consumers who have such
> > > connections have really won out.  10 years ago that 256K connection
> > > cost about $50/month.  Today, we have 1Mbps+ connections at about
> > > $50/month!
> >
> >   And the people in the area of FiOS win the most.  Several friends
> > have it, and up to 30 Mbps is perty.  :-)  Business connections with 5
> > dedicated IPs even better.
> 
> 
> 
> I've got 15 Mbps FiOS and I'm going to drop down to 5 Mbps.  I mostly
> download Linux & Solaris ISOs and software.  Most sites can only provide 170
> k/s or so although the Ubuntu 7.04 torrent hit 1000 k/s or so and
> Sun.comhit 1700 k/s.  I don't think I'll notice a big difference
> because at this
> point, it's the other end.

Are these figures kbps or KB/s?  (I know, for crying outloud... the
original post was a humor piece!)