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Anden100 · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:51 pm Post subject: MBit/MByte?

I was talking to my friend, once his dad told me about his new internet speed, and then he kept telling that you can't compare Bytes and Bits, and i kept telling that you could, they were just different sizes.

As far as i heard, a byte contains 8 bits, isn't that correct?
And if you have a Internet Speed of 8mbit/s, its the same as 1mbyte/s, right?

gogodr · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:06 pm Post subject:

I think they are refering to this
Mbps and Mb/s
and not bit and byte thing xP

Cryoma · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:12 pm Post subject:

Mbps = Megabytes per second.
Mb/s = Megabits per second.

1Megabit = 125000bytes, 125 kilobytes (kB), or approximately 122 kibibytes (KiB).

Also, a byte has 2 bits, but those bits are different than the internet bits.

AIva1110 · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:24 pm Post subject:

1MB (Megabyte) = 8 Megabits
1 Mb(Megabit) = 2^10=1024 Kb(Kilobits) or 1024/8=128 KB(Kilobytes)
1 Byte = 8 Bits

Not sure where you got those numbers from but they are completely wrong.

Codeslinger · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:54 pm Post subject:

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:29 pm Post subject:

while it's true there's 8 bits in a byte, with data transfer you have to take into account the extra protocol headers , this causes an average of 2 bits extra for each byte transfered, making it into a nice 10 bits / byte

this makes calculating the actual max speed so much easier, and most of the time actually represents what you actually get
e.g 10MBit/sec will give you max 1MByte /Sec
1MBit tends to have a max of 100KB/sec

which matches my practical upload and download (10MBit down, 1MBit up) perfectly

Anden100 · Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 12:26 am Post subject:

Thanks, really cleared it up Very Happy

Cheetah · Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:24 am Post subject: