Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "American Reacts to Australia VS United States - Total Country Comparison" video.

  1. NOTE: internet speed is Mega BIT per second, not BYTE. A byte is 8 bits, and protocol overhead means data rate in bytes falls a little under 10 times slower than the BIT rate. A common misinterpretation of MBPS. Data streams are defined by bit rates,, formerly refered to as BAUD rate, which is really defining rate at which signal state can change per second. In olden times it was the actual voltage switching rate, like the mechanical switch. As phone lines had wider bandwidth, tone encoding allowed faster rates by encoding data as different frequencies, so data rate, Baud, pushed 300, 1200, and faster. Ultimately such trickery used multiple frequency channels, to push Baud rates to 38.4kBaud and higher. On modern internet the data is again back to using the digital speed of the channel, the maximum supported rate that voltage changes or in optical fibre the light pulses can change. In the case of USB 2, 480Mbit/s, USB 3 at 5Gbit/s, now extending upwards 10 or 15 Gbit/s, similar for other specialised cable channels. New 5G telephony, by using frequencies in high Gigahertz allow also data speeds 1Gbit/s. WiFi too can support or approach such fast rates. The actual data transfer in order to code many different characters is formed from multiple bits. There are many character coding schemes, But ASCII is presently most common and is commonly 8 bits (7 bits basic, but extended set 8 bits). The data stream has protocol bits and charcters added. For modern language support there are also longer Unified character encodings using 16 bits, but for most data schemes one still uses byte, 8 bits, as the unit data.
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  2. Just pulled up area info for Australia, it is 7,692,024 sq km, even WA alone is 2, 529,875 sq km. I declare the video area info is totally wrong!
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  3. I would need to check but I think there is an error in those areas stated. The overlay showing Alaska as huge may also be in error as the image may be tsken off a rectabgular projection map. All areas nearing the poles projected properly on a globe actually appear much smallerthan a flat map projection. Similarly the old USSR and Greenland are often seen to appear much larger than reality.
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