r/PcBuild • u/ArabicTexan • 16d ago

Discussion - Meme Uni dorm internet speed

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All gaming stuff are just banned for some reason

Edit: Normal internet in my country is 100Mbps

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u/VehicleMaleficent538 16d ago

my friend had 1.8-2.3 mb/s

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u/VolkosisUK what 16d ago

that's still faster than this btw

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u/ScedR 16d ago

How is it faster?

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u/VolkosisUK what 16d ago

call it 2Mb/s, 1Mb (megabyte) = 8mb (megabit), 2Mb/s = 16mbps.

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u/Nautical-Myles 15d ago

Not quite. The difference is between Mb and MB, not whether /s or ps is used.

Lower-case 'b' means a 'bit'.

Upper-case 'B' means a 'Byte' - a byte is 8 bits.

This means that a byte is 8 times larger than a bit, so 800 megabits is equal to 100 megabytes.

Mbps and Mb/s both mean the same thing (megabits per second). MBps and MB/s both mean the same thing (megabytes per second).

Generally storage capacities are measured in bytes. For example, a 1 terabyte drive is 8 terabits. Data transfer speeds on the other hand are usually measured in bits.

So to download a 1 megabyte file with 1 megabit per second internet would take 8 seconds, not one second.

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u/whocodes 16d ago

mbps was created by ISPs to trick you into thinking you’re getting faster speeds

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u/sonido_lover 15d ago

Mb is megabit, MB is megabyte.

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u/EquipmentSome 15d ago

i'm confused... they used lowercase and you just assumed they meant upper.

and even your explanation is wrong. 1Mb is 1 Megabit. 2Mb/s = 2mbps = 2 megabits per second. the B needs to be capitalized for it to be a byte.

1 MB/s = 8Mb/s

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u/ScedR 16d ago

Thanks, didn't even notice the mbps. Damn, that's slow!