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Ryan11433
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4 years ago

Mbps discussion

Maui1957 wrote: It will never disconnect you or charge you for going over your data limit, but you will experience reduced speeds of 1–3 Mbps once you hit your limit. That’s still enough speed t...
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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
4 years ago
Ryan11433 wrote:

1-3 Mps means Mega bits per second not mega bytes per second?? I have heard about this long time ago but what is the difference between bytes and bits?

Megabits per second is Mbps (Mb/s) and megabytes per second is MBps (MB/s).  8Mbps = 1MBps.

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    Ryan11433
    Junior
    4 years ago
    GabeU wrote:
    Ryan11433 wrote:

    1-3 Mps means Mega bits per second not mega bytes per second?? I have heard about this long time ago but what is the difference between bytes and bits?

    Megabits per second is Mbps (Mb/s)

    That is what I thought in the first place and thanks for the note.

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    Ryan11433
    Junior
    4 years ago
    GabeU wrote:
    Ryan11433 wrote:

    1-3 Mps means Mega bits per second not mega bytes per second?? I have heard about this long time ago but what is the difference between bytes and bits?

    Mmegabytes per second is MBps (MB/s).  8Mbps = 1MBps.

    Huh? Do you mean 8 instead of 1?

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      maratsade
      Distinguished Professor IV
      4 years ago

      He means 1.

       

      1 megabyte per second (MBps) equals 8 megabits per second (Mbps).

       

      Ryan11433 wrote:

      Megabytes per second is MBps (MB/s).  8Mbps = 1MBps.

      Huh? Do you mean 8 instead of 1?

       

       

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        Ryan11433
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        4 years ago
        maratsade wrote:

        He means 1.

         

        1 megabyte per second (MBps) equals 8 megabits per second (Mbps).

         

        Ryan11433 wrote:

        Megabytes per second is MBps (MB/s).  8Mbps = 1MBps.

        Huh? Do you mean 8 instead of 1?

         

         

        8 Mbps = 8,000 Kbps it is what Google also have said.