Internet Bandwidth and Speed

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good luck

Mbps stands for Mega bits per second.

The usual system that humans use is MBps which stands fro Mega Bytes per second.

1 Byte is composed of 8 bits. This means to turn Bytes into Bits just multiply by 8 and in the other way around, just divide by 8.

There could also be other measures apart from Megas

1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
1024 Gigabyte = 1 Terabyte

And the list goes on but for internet bandwidth I'm pretty sure the previous list would be enough.

So, how do you get those 20 Mbps into a human readable number? Simple. Let's measure that in Mega Bytes per second.

8 * 1 Mbps = 1 MBps
20 Mbps = ?

So the answer is 2.5 Mega Bytes per second.

Now, how would you continue to get the answer in Kilo Bytes? Just multiply.

1 MBps = 1024 KBps
2.5 MBps = ?

So the answer is 2560 Kilo Bytes per second.