COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

Detailed explanation-1: -Broadband speeds are measured in ‘megabits per second’, often shortened to Mb Mbits p/s or Mbps. Bits are tiny units of data, with a megabit representing a million of them. The higher the number of Mbps (megabits per second) you have, the speedier your online activity should be.

Detailed explanation-2: -Megabits per second (Mbps) are units of measurement for network bandwidth and throughput. They are used to show how fast a network or internet connection is. Each Mbps represents the capacity to transfer 1 million bits each second, or roughly one small photo per second. It may also be expressed as Mbit/s or Mb/s.

Detailed explanation-3: -Essentially, 1 megabit consists of 1, 000, 000 bits. So, 1Mbps is the rate of transfer of one million bits per second. If we take this one step higher, a thousand Megabits are called a Gigabit (Gb). This equals 1 billion bits.

Detailed explanation-4: -As to why we measure internet speed in bits even though the internet delivers bytes of data, it is because the internet delivers those bytes of data as single bits at a time.

Detailed explanation-5: -Using the binary definition of the megabyte (MB), 8.192 megabits per second (mbps) equal 1 megabyte per second (MB/s). Using the SI (International System of Units) standard of the megabyte, 8, 000 megabits per second equal one megabyte per second.