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How many Mbps are there in 5 megabytes of internet?
Response from ALEGSA.com.ar:
The «megs» advertised in Internet access speed advertisements refer to mbps, that is, megabit per second.
Therefore 1 mega is 1 mbps, 6 megs is 6 mbps. Mbps means megabit per second, you can get more information about this in our dictionary: mbps.
It is not correct to call them «mega», because it is an ambiguous term, they use it rather in advertisements of internet providers because «mbps» sounds very technical. To learn more about this ambiguity, I suggest you read: Mega.
I also suggest reading the article: Why is the internet speed slow?, where we explain different reasons why the internet may be slow.
I leave you a table of different multiples of bps:
Bit transfer multiples
– bps (bit per second)
– kbps (kilobit per second) = 1000 bits per second = 125 bytes per second
– mbps (megabit per second) = 1,000,000 bits per second = 1,000 kbps = 125,000 bytes per second = 125 kilobytes per second
– gbps (gigabit per second) = 1,000,000,000 bits per second = 1000 mbps = 125 megabytes per second
– tbps (terabit per second) = 1,000,000,000,000 bits per second = 1000 gbps = 125 gigabytes per second
See related terminology
•Mbps
• Kbps
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