FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore::Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.

  • Volt@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    To clear up confusion, 6MBps (MegaByte) down would be equal to 48Mbps (Megabit). So you would be above the mentioned standard.

    Or you made typo, then you’re indeed below standard ^^"

    • Callie@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      I think I made a typo and misread the title itself. the full uppercase and lowercasing of data speeds is confusing to me

      • Ricaz@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        One is a rate of data, the other is an amount.

        Mbps means megabits per second.

        MB is just megabytes. You can of course turn it into a rate, but then it would be MB/s.

        There are 8 bits in a byte, so 100 Mbps would be 12.5 MB/s (divide by 8)

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          1 year ago

          Thank you for taking the time to explain that! I think I understand the difference now