• Redhotkurt@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You might have figured it out by now, but “megabits per second” is abbreviated as “Mbps” with an uppercase m; yeah, it’s kinda pedantic, but using lowercase means it’s a millibit, which is much, much smaller. The same applies to “gigabits per second,” which should be expressed as “Gbps.”

    At any rate, thank you for posting this, it really is good news. And about time they did this, too.

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      1 year ago

      There is no 1000ths of a 0 or 1.

      Milibit does not exist.

      Network speed is measured in Megabits per second, which is indeed 8 times smaller than Megabyte per second that OSes show when transferring files.