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megabit vs megabyte

Soheil Forouzan answered on November 10, 2022 Popularity 9/10 Helpfulness 5/10

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In order to explain this let's go down to the difference of a bit to a byte.
A bit (short for ‘binary digit’) is the smallest unit of digital
information; simply a 1 or a 0. A byte is a group of eight bits.

Scaling these up, 1 Megabit (MBit / Mb) is 1000,000 bits, and 1 MegaByte
(MByte / MB) is 1000,000 bytes, and, as there are 8 bits
in every byte, there are 8 Megabits in every MegaByte.

So, in short, 1 Megabit is 1 million ‘1’s and ‘0’s, while 1 MegaByte
is 8 million ‘1’s and ‘0’s.

Confusingly both terms are commonly used in computing; MegaBits
are most often used for measuring an Internet connection
download or upload speeds, while Megabytes are used to measure file size.

In terms of download and upload speeds, when someone says a connection
is “30 Megabits per second” this needs to be divided by eight to find
the “MegaBytes per second” that will be transferred.
The most common way people are confused is when speeds
(eg 30 Megabits/Megabytes per second) are written in short forms like
30Mbps or 30MBps without additional clarification as to whether
the ‘b’ is representing a bit or a byte, compared to the much
clearer ‘30MBit/s’ or ‘30MByte/s’. The common convention for the
shortened form, is that a lowercase ‘b’ represents bits, while a
uppercase ‘B’ represents bytes.

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