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.

  • 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)

    • Callie@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

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