FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore::Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.

  • Callie@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    I think I made a typo and misread the title itself. the full uppercase and lowercasing of data speeds is confusing to me

    • Ricaz@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      One is a rate of data, the other is an amount.

      Mbps means megabits per second.

      MB is just megabytes. You can of course turn it into a rate, but then it would be MB/s.

      There are 8 bits in a byte, so 100 Mbps would be 12.5 MB/s (divide by 8)

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        1 year ago

        Thank you for taking the time to explain that! I think I understand the difference now