Well, at the risk of being overly pedantic, bandwidth is measured in _frequency_. The unit of Frequency is Hertz (Hz, formerly known as cps)which is one cycle per second, and to omit the words 'per second' is quite valid. You have an electricity meter in your house that measures 'kilowatts', but it is really mesuring the rate of power consumption over a given time, an hour in this case. Of course in these days of advertising hype, I agree with you in that they _should_ specify a time, otherwise it could just be their marketing dept. saying "... Er, so how can we make that number BIGGER?..."
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Well, at the risk of being overly pedantic, bandwidth is measured in _frequency_. The unit of Frequency is Hertz (Hz, formerly known as cps)which is one cycle per second, and to omit the words 'per second' is quite valid. You have an electricity meter in your house that measures 'kilowatts', but it is really mesuring the rate of power consumption over a given time, an hour in this case.
Of course in these days of advertising hype, I agree with you in that they _should_ specify a time, otherwise it could just be their marketing dept. saying "... Er, so how can we make that number BIGGER?..."
Cheers,
Graham Cattley
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