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Milambar · 02-12-2011, 17:16

Are you sure you are not mixing units up?

10Mb means megabits a second is what plan provides, which gives you 1.25 megabytes a second, not 10 megabytes. The problem is, some speedtests measure in megabytes/second.

10Mb is not the same as 10MB, Mb = megabits, MB = Megabytes. The change in case isn't just being "polite", it actually is an entirely different unit.

This difference in units confuses a lot of people (myself included occasionally).

02-12-2011, 17:16	#2
Milambar Inactive Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 954	Re: Full speed downloading, only 2MB streaming and speed tests Are you sure you are not mixing units up? 10Mb means megabits a second is what plan provides, which gives you 1.25 megabytes a second, not 10 megabytes. The problem is, some speedtests measure in megabytes/second. 10Mb is not the same as 10MB, Mb = megabits, MB = Megabytes. The change in case isn't just being "polite", it actually is an entirely different unit. This difference in units confuses a lot of people (myself included occasionally).