Is Mbps the same as MBps?

[Holiday]

Is Mbps the same as MBps?

 

[The_Other_One]

lowercase b is suppose to mean bit, capital is suppose to mean byte... Not to say they are always used this way

 

[elmarcorulz]

Mb is megabit, and MB is megabyte, as the other one said. a byte is 8 times more than a bit.

 

[Holiday]

well I was looking at getting Version DSL and they said "speeds up to 3.0 Mbps"
does that mean 3 Megabytes per second or 3 megabits per second. and what exactly is the difference

 

[Cromewell]

it will be 3 megabit per second. Megabytes are a larger unit, 3.0Megabits/s =~ 366KB/s

 

[DanLatimer]

practically all companies use megabit/s because it is considered the standard for transfer rates. My ISP is upgrading to 10Mbs download here as soon as i go away to collage...

 

[Cromewell]

That and 3Mbps looks faster than 0.36MBps

 

[DanLatimer]

EDIT: i get you nvm lol
agreed!

 

[jjsevdt]

if you want to get to the nitty gritty of it. In an octet, Binary Word, each letter is a bit and 8 bits make a word, other wise known as a byte. an example of such would be 10110011