Data rate converter

Internet plans are sold in bits per second; downloads show bytes per second. Divide by 8 to go from one to the other.

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1 Mbit/s = 0.125 MB/sMB/s = Mbit/s × 0.125 · shown to 6 significant figures
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Connection speeds are quoted in bits per second (a 500 Mbps plan), while browsers and download managers show bytes per second (62.5 MB/s). Since a byte is 8 bits, the download figure is always one eighth of the line rate, before protocol overhead takes another few percent. All prefixes here are decimal, as used by ISPs and the IEEE: 1 Mbps is 1,000,000 bits per second.

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