Megabits per second (Mb/s) vs Megabytes per second (MB/s)

8 bits in a byte is for storage and parallel protocols. For serial protocols without a dedicated clock signal such as SATA, PCI-e, Ethernet, USB etc a byte is larger than 8 bits during transfer. 1 byte is 10 bits in 8/10 and 4/5 encoding, that really easy to work with just divide by 10 :) For other protocols 64/66 and bit stuffing, the math becomes hard.

1 Byte = 8 Bit.

Divide your Mbit/s by 8 and you'll get the MB/s.

I like the videos, but if it's in the title, it would be nice to have it in the first 30 seconds.

Good explanation, but you should have probably said that:
When you see the internet speeds in lowercase b or for example "20Mb/s" you just divide 20/8 to get the megabyte value which in this case will be 2.5 MB/s.

Back in the days of early computers for the consumer, some stores advertised a computer properly listing the RAM as 64 kilobytes and then other stores listed the computer as having 65 kilobytes.
I would think the computer advertising the one with 65 KB had more RAM but I later learned that that store was lying!
Liter I learned that hard drives was different because of formatting.

I assumed that the differece in today's hard drives was still because of formatting, but now you decribed it as that it is because they are still doing the same lies.

When dealing with consumers all measurements should be quoted in bytes per second. Marketing people like throwing bits per second because they are bigger numbers....

great tutorial..

In casual writing the units can get ambiguous if only lowercase is used. Better stick with Mbit. The people at Fraunhofer have consistently used kBit/s with a capital B. I don't know if that is a German thing. Also bit/s always use decimal prefixes.

Dividing network speed by 10 gets a close enough approximation of the transfer rate in bytes allowing for overhead and inefficiency of the congestion avoidance mechanism.

THANK YOU for explaining something that ive wondered about for years, but never bothered to investigate. excellently explained, in a simple way for all of us to understand. many thanks again.

I just call it Mbps

I got a new connection and it was advertised as 10 Mbps and I was so hyped about it thinking I would get 10 mb/s download speed , guess I was wrong 😔, I'm getting like 1.4 mb/ s download speed

So in the most laymen of terms if you see 10MB u × it by 8 and that will tell u your download speed is 80 Mbps

Really great explanation :) cheers

Awesome video. Thanks a bunch! Is there an visual representation somwhere where say 10m/bit is illustrated?

Excellent

Mb and MB is just a difference of capital, and it's so unfair that they are much more different than they look

Like my Lte modem runs in Kbps than my Xbox one runs into Mbps

Hi. Mr gary I love your teaching . but I will like to ask a question please please please can I ask ?

why is it that everything technology comes up with is always convoluted to the point of absurdity ?

Hi Gary. Just wondering if I'm right by saying the reason there are 8 bits to a Byte is because of the 'basic' programming? I was told that the letters were made up of dots (bits) & that each letter was a Byte! It just winds me up when network providers say they can do (this really winds me up) 'up-to' so-many 'bits' per second! Why don't they say Bytes per second? Is it to make their network look better than what it is? All the best....................

Thx. Very helpful.

how many bits or bytes is a packet

So I need help I just moved to pc and I’m installing doom eternal and it’s says 8MB/s and my Xbox installs roughly 70mbps so what’s better cause at first I thought my pc was broken

So, I thought when transferring bytes between two devices, one bit at a time, a byte was preceded by a start-bit and ended with a stop-bit. I know this is quite often used in serial communication. To convert megabits to megabytes, you would divide by 10.

When you talk about how an OS reads less bytes than a HD, if a HD is 1,000KB then wouldn't the operating system report 1,024KB, which is more not less? Thanks

Can we use megabits for measuring file size

Megabytes x8 = Mbits

Thank you, Gary!

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You did a wonderful job explaining. My first time to your channel. Thanks

Thank you so much, Gray, I learned a lot and comment on you on that, I hope would see another video of the same teaching in the future.

I ways thought my internet download was in megabytes not megabits, now I understand why it always seemed so slow compared to what I thought was the real speed in megabytes.

i still dont get it.

Ah so a megapint is a million pints.

i would be okay if bits/sec was completely contained to wide area networking, but when it bleeds into computer components i become a very unhappy person. i have become so frustrated with this that i am now holding the belief that bits/sec should never be used, as the vast majority of the population are more familiar with bytes. SATA 3.0 is 750MB/s, USB 3 Gen 2 is 1.25GB/s, NVME Gen 3 is 4GB/s. none of this 6Gbps, 10Gbps, 32Gbps crap.

Awesome explanations, thank you!

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"For those of you in North America a kilometer is 1000m."
What's a meter? lol

So in theory, if I’ll get a 1 GigaBit per sec connection (let’s say both download and upload) I won’t be able to upload a video of 1GB in 1 sec, it will take 8 seconds, right? If so our connections are way slower than I thought

Canada uses KM as well

It mean, bit, is for use data/files transfer and bytes is for memory/storadge.

What about Gbps

👌👍 I would like to have a Kiwibite 🥝

Thank you so much you perfectly explained in laymen terms

Thank you for being the first video I found to explain this properly

Wow !!!

Thanks a lot I was so worried cause I thought my pc was only downloading at 5 mbps but it was actually 5 MBs

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Just got 900 megabit per second wifi

Can I buy you a coffee? Thanks for the video

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