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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...
A Byte is a character. Multiple bits make up a character.
Depending upon the number of control bits, there could be between 8-12 bits per Byte. I use 10 as a general rule, going back to the old signalling days when you had 8 data bits, 1 start bit, 1 stop bit and no parity bits.
Therefore, using simple conversion math:
1,000,000 Byte 10 bits 10,000,000 bits
1MBps = -------------------- * ---------------- = --------------------- = 10Mbps
sec 1Byte sec
MarkJFine wrote:A Byte is a character. Multiple bits make up a character.
Depending upon the number of control bits, there could be between 8-12 bits per Byte. I use 10 as a general rule, going back to the old signalling days when you had 8 data bits, 1 start bit, 1 stop bit and no parity bits.
Therefore, using simple conversion math:
1,000,000
Byte10 bits 10,000,000 bits
1MBps = -------------------- * ---------------- = --------------------- = 10Mbpssec 1
Bytesec
But nearly all commercial speed tests use binary, not decimal, for their conversions. In speed tests 1MBps = 8Mbps and 1Mbps = 0.125MBps. I've never seen speed tests using a decimal conversion before, or at least not in anything commercial.
And remember, this is data transfer rate, not data amounts like storage.
