Internet Speed: Mb and MB both differs

Mb and MB what's the difference?

        I wager ISP employees know the difference of both with their advertising jargon. I have had my 1Mbps internet for quite a few years now. My ISP (which is PLDT) advertises 1Mbps.

Non-tech oriented people would mistakenly think of it as a 1MBps. Notice the uppercase B?

    Mb which stands for Megabits and MB, Megabytes. There's a massive space of difference between the two. ISP's are in the business of selling data transfers at "bits per second", Not bytes. I once spoke on the phone who told me that they can provide speeds of up to 3 Megabytes for an additional price. I interrupted his segue and told him "megabits right? not megabytes". He was confused and made a comment "they're the same thing sir". For Pete's sake they're not the same thing!

1Mbps = 0.125MBps

1Mbps = 0.125 MBps or 125KBps.
If you're thinking about getting a 1Mbps would give you a MBps transfer speed, then that's godsend for something that cheap. You would be able to download a Standard Definition movie in less than 15 minutes. That's blazing fast.




Conversion Formula for Mbps to KBps: (Given: N = Mbps)
N = N * 1000kbps (In actual: 1KB = 1024bytes)
then the result / 8 KBps (1 Byte = 8 bits or 1B = 8b)

Example:
(1)
1Mbps = 1 * 1000
1000 / 8
125 KBps

(2)
12Mbps  = 12 * 1000
12000 / 8
1500 KBps or 1.5 MBps

There you go! It's best to know that buying a data transfer rate from ISP's can get a tad misleading as speed advertised is not relevant to what some people think they're getting.