It was never confusing.<p>Bandwidth speed is in bits. Storage is in bytes.<p>When the unit is anything-bytes, it is powers of 1024.<p><i>Note that the byte itself is a power of two already.</i><p>This obnoxious KiB MiB nonsense is a non-solution in search of a problem.<p>Wikipedia on MiB: <i>The binary prefixes have been accepted by all major standards organizations and are part of the International System of Quantities. Many Linux distributions use the unit, but it is not widely acknowledged within the industry or media.</i><p>Basically, we only need this type of unit in a context where dishonest and ignorant people are involved, in order to protect the latter from the former.