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17,107 MB but in what is that in GB?
i love sky
29-08-2012
Just been looking at my 3 account online as my new month starts today and its saying I have 17,107mb left but what is that in GB?
Step666
29-08-2012
It depends whether you're counting decimal or binary but, either way, it's ~17GB.
Roush
29-08-2012
Three measure 1 GB as 1024 MB, so 17,107 MB is 16.7 GB.
i love sky
29-08-2012
Many thanks guys.

Do you know if it gets rolled over to the next month if you don't use it all the month before?
BOOTHY2905
29-08-2012
Originally Posted by Roush:
“Three measure 1 GB as 1024 MB, so 17,107 MB is 16.7 GB.”

That's the norm, not just 3. Follow this pattern up to 1024.

2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64..........
jabbamk1
29-08-2012
No, it does not get rolled over unfortunately. I miss the days of roll-over minutes.
Roush
29-08-2012
Originally Posted by BOOTHY2905:
“That's the norm, not just 3. Follow this pattern up to 1024.

2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64..........”

Well, it depends on how pedantic you want to be.

No standards institutes actually regard base 2 notation as being correct for KB / MB / GB measurements, so in the strictest sense 1 GB is 1 billion bytes.

KiB, MiB and GiB are the correct notations for the base 2 measurements.
Nightdeamon
30-08-2012
surely its 0.0167061GB
Step666
30-08-2012
Originally Posted by Nightdeamon:
“surely its 0.0167061GB”

You're confusing your punctuation.
MTUK1
30-08-2012
Originally Posted by i love sky:
“Many thanks guys.

Do you know if it gets rolled over to the next month if you don't use it all the month before?”

Are you not on all you can eat data? Surely that wouldn't make a difference?
gomezz
30-08-2012
Originally Posted by i love sky:
“Just been looking at my 3 account online as my new month starts today and its saying I have 17,107mb left but what is that in GB?”

What the heck does a milli-bit mean?
Glawster2002
30-08-2012
Originally Posted by Roush:
“Well, it depends on how pedantic you want to be.

No standards institutes actually regard base 2 notation as being correct for KB / MB / GB measurements, so in the strictest sense 1 GB is 1 billion bytes.

KiB, MiB and GiB are the correct notations for the base 2 measurements.”

Whilst Base 2 notation might not be officially recognised by standards institutes for those measurements, it has become the de facto standard amongst telecoms companies because data usage is measures in terms of transmitted bits per second.
chrisjr
30-08-2012
Originally Posted by gomezz:
“What the heck does a milli-bit mean? ”

That it is a very, very, very slow connection?
gomezz
30-08-2012
I'lll say. It took me all night to make it.
flagpole
30-08-2012
Originally Posted by i love sky:
“Many thanks guys.

Do you know if it gets rolled over to the next month if you don't use it all the month before?”

if you didn't need it this month why would you need it next month?
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