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Computer wizz please help me understand what exactly a megabit is?
04-28-2014, 10:49 AM
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Megabits (per second) is what your internet speed is measured in, while megabytes is what files and download speed for files are measured in (in the latter case, megabytes per second). If your internet connection is 7 megabits per second in download (regardless of your speed in upload), then the theoretical maximum speed you can download a file at would be (7/8 = 0.875, since 1 megabyte = 8 megabit) 0.875 megabytes per second, which amounts to 875 kilobytes per second (KBps), the measurement unit most used for the download speed of files.
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