Everyone from tech reporters to IT people interchange the terms kilobits and kilobytes, and it's driving me mad. For the last time, a kiloBIT is 1/8th of a kiloBYTE. When you get about 130 kilobytes per second on a 1mbit connection, that's fair. TimeWarner promises me 3mbit/s down and I usually get between 5-6mbit/s, so I'm happy, but alleged tech experts need to stop whining that their 6mbit/s connection isn't 6MB/s, because it's not supposed to be.
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