Marketing in bits is anti-consumer, since average consumer does not understand what actual download speed they will get when buying.
It’s not anti-consumer to advertise a product’s capabilities in the most accurate way possible. When you pay for internet bandwidth you’re not paying for download speed, you’re paying for a transmission rate. Advertising internet plans based on the speeds you get in Chrome would not be possible and therefore any attempt to do so would be deceptive to the customer.
Almost everyone I know is confused why the speeds they pay for don’t match the speed of downloads in Chrome
The Internet bandwidth they pay for will never match the speed of downloads in Chrome, even if you convert bits to bites, so you’d sacrifice technical accuracy for an even more confusing guesstimate
What you’re missing here is that you want the number you pay for from your ISP and the number you can measure downloading a file at to match. But they never will, because they’re two completely different concepts. One of those number is a constituent part of the other number. They’re not interchangeable.
It’s not anti-consumer to advertise a product’s capabilities in the most accurate way possible. When you pay for internet bandwidth you’re not paying for download speed, you’re paying for a transmission rate. Advertising internet plans based on the speeds you get in Chrome would not be possible and therefore any attempt to do so would be deceptive to the customer.
The Internet bandwidth they pay for will never match the speed of downloads in Chrome, even if you convert bits to bites, so you’d sacrifice technical accuracy for an even more confusing guesstimate
What you’re missing here is that you want the number you pay for from your ISP and the number you can measure downloading a file at to match. But they never will, because they’re two completely different concepts. One of those number is a constituent part of the other number. They’re not interchangeable.