16 megabits equals how many megabytes?

Answer 1

A "megabit" is a short way to say megabits per second, or how many millions of bits can be sent or received in a second for an electronic connection. A megabyte is a unit that measures the size of files or the capacities of storage media. One megabyte equals 1048576 bytes, or 8388608 bits. These terms describe two different things and have no relation.

Ans. 2

The first answer is incorrect in several ways. It has not been blanked because contrasting right with wrong is sometimes the best way of making things clear.

• A bit is a short way to say one binary digit.
• A megabit is a short way to say 220 bits.
• mbps is a short way to say megabits per second.
• mBps is a short way to say megabytes per scond
• A byte is a number of bits treated together as a block or group. In the early days of computing a byte size could be whatever the designer wanted. (I once worked on a computer which had 6-bit bytes and 8-bit bytes at the same time ! Not designed by me.) Today a byte has settled at the 8-bit level.
• To convert bits to bytes simply divide by the byte size.

Assuming we are not talking ancient history, 16 megabits is 2 megabytes.

The reason for specifying transfer rates in mbps rather than mBps is that it immediately shows the rate at which information is transferred and at the same time removes the necessity for specifying byte lengths.