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FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore (arstechnica.com)

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FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore::Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.

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[-] Volt@pawb.social 17 points 1 year ago

To clear up confusion, 6MBps (MegaByte) down would be equal to 48Mbps (Megabit). So you would be above the mentioned standard.

Or you made typo, then you're indeed below standard ^^"

[-] Callie@pawb.social 10 points 1 year ago

I think I made a typo and misread the title itself. the full uppercase and lowercasing of data speeds is confusing to me

[-] Ricaz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One is a rate of data, the other is an amount.

Mbps means megabits per second.

MB is just megabytes. You can of course turn it into a rate, but then it would be MB/s.

There are 8 bits in a byte, so 100 Mbps would be 12.5 MB/s (divide by 8)

[-] Callie@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for taking the time to explain that! I think I understand the difference now

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