{"id":2240,"date":"2015-05-13T20:27:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T20:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qbytes.cloud\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2015-05-13T20:27:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T20:27:54","slug":"the-difference-between-a-megabyte-mb-and-a-megabit-mb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/2015\/05\/13\/the-difference-between-a-megabyte-mb-and-a-megabit-mb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference between a Megabyte (MB) and a Megabit (Mb)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think 1 Megabit per second (1 Mbps) will allow you to download a 1 Megabyte file in one second?<\/p>\n<p>This is not the case. A Megabit is 1\/8 as big as a Megabyte.<\/p>\n<p>1 Megabyte = 8 Megabits<br \/>\nMbps = Megbits per second<br \/>\nMBps = MegBytes per second<br \/>\nInternet speed is usually measured in megabits per second<\/p>\n<p>So, to download a 1MB file in 1 second you would need a connection of 8Mbps ( 8 Megbits per second). The difference between a Gigabyte (GB) and a Gigabit (Gb) is the same, with a Gigabyte being 8 times larger than a Gigabit.<\/p>\n<p>To calculate how long it will take a file to download over your connection, you can use Google&#8217;s simple MB\/Mb converter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=megabyte+megabit+converter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=megabyte+megabit+converter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think 1 Megabit per second (1 Mbps) will allow you to download a 1 Megabyte file in one second? This is not the case. A Megabit is 1\/8 as big as a Megabyte. 1 Megabyte = 8 Megabits Mbps = Megbits per second MBps = MegBytes per second Internet speed is usually measured &#8230; <a title=\"The Difference between a Megabyte (MB) and a Megabit (Mb)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/2015\/05\/13\/the-difference-between-a-megabyte-mb-and-a-megabit-mb\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Difference between a Megabyte (MB) and a Megabit (Mb)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qbytes.cloud\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}