Mbps is MegaBITS not MegaBYTES. (Many people get this confused and think it determines download speeds). Megabit is sending/receiving data, Megabyte is storage.
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One Megabit - a measure of data transmission speed – 1,000,000* bits per second or approximately 125,000 characters per second
*Pretty sure thats not accurate (1 bit x 1,0242 (1,048,576) bits)
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Approximately one million bits, or exactly 1 bit x 1,0242 (1,048,576) bits. One million bits of data. (10 Megabits per second, or Mbps, means that 10 million bits of data are being transmitted over the network per second.) Don't confuse with megabyte, the usual measure of computer memory and storage space. Eight bits make up one byte.
If ever I'm not sure what somehting is, I look it up on google using "define: <word>"
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