Download Speed.

People confuse of this two because two word sound same Mbps or MBps, actually it was.

I will explain the different.

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Bit

Acronym for Bit is b

bit can only store binary value (1 or 0)

8 bit = 1 Byte

Combining of 8 bits to form a single character. For example, character “M” in binary form is “0100 1101”

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ISP using Bit to determine the internet speed.

50 Mbps = 50 Mega bits per second = 50,000,000. Which mean the speed for data transfer

is Fifty Million Bits for every seconds.

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So how to know our DOWNLOAD SPEED?

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First to know, to measure the size of file is using "Bytes" for example (1.4GB = 1.4 GigaBytes).

Second, The internet speed is measured in "Bits". 

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So to calculate the DOWNLOAD SPEED is by divide the internet speed with 8.

Example: 50 Mpbs / 8 = 6.25 MBps (Mega Bytes per second)

Why we divide with 8? Because We need to convert Bits to Bytes. 8 bits = 1 Bytes.

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If you confuse please read "First to know" again.

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Thank you.

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