i am seeing more examples where bytes are being displayed as kib manufacturers always display the capacity of their memory or storage capacity using the largest numbers and thus prefer the bytes kb format i have seen some instances where bytes have been displayed as kb instead of kib it can be very confusing if the new standard is not used transmission speeds are not a simple calculation of how many data bits are being sent the header data must be factored in as well do you know if there are any start or stop bits included in each byte during transmission