Difference between MB/s and Mb/s

Asked By Julius C Diaz 10 points N/A Posted on - 04/02/2015

I have heard people saying that they have a network speed of 54 megabyte per second and on observing more carefully I saw the speed marked as 54 Mb/s and when I test the speed on my home it says four MB/s what is the actual difference in among mega byte per second and mega bits per second? Are they the same? one MB/s is fast or one Mb/s is fast? Please answer my question I want  to know it.

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Answered By Dave Crinit 5 points N/A #193992

Difference between MB/s and Mb/s

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Actually, this is a very simple fact to understand.

In data rate calculations related to the information and communication technology,

• 8 bits = 1 byte
• 1000 bytes = 8 kilobits (kb) = 1 Kilobyte (KB)
• 1000 Kilobytes (KB) = 8 megabits (Mb) = 1 Megabyte (MB)

 

But 1 megabyte per second (MB/s) is a unit of data transfer rate equal to:

• 8,000,000 bits per second
• 1,000,000 bytes per second
• 1,000 kilobytes per second
• 8 megabits per second

Therefore, it is clear that 1 MBps is 8 times faster than 1 Mbps.

However, in general, Mb is used as a transfer measurement, while MB is used as a storage measurement.

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