it's the rate of how many mega bytes are downloaded/uploaded per second so in your case it's 8 megabytes per second which is quite fast.
To answer this correctly we need to understand what is being discussed due to the confusion of terms.
File size -:
are normally quoted as Mbytes where each byte consists of 8 bits of data.
Communications -:
is normally quoted a Mb/s or Mbps which is bits per second. and normal serial communication is 8N1 or 8 bits, No parity, 1 stopbit
Also with communications we have the underlying communications protocol overhead which can be very high particularly with applications that use small packet size, eg VoIP and some web apps.
Most people talk of their DSL link as MBPS but must remember that is the speed of the link including overhead and is BITs not Bytes therefore not a direct relationship to the file size.
1,000,000/1,000 = 10001 kbps = one thousand bits per second1 mbps = one million bits per second
You don't have an Internet speed of 54 Mbps. You might have a WLAN speed of 54 Mbps. You probally have an Internet speed of around 5 Mbps. Which is around 500kb/s. Which would mean a megabyte every two second. 10 megabytes every 20 seconds. 100 megabytes every 200 seconds. 1000 (around 1GB) every 2000 seconds. 10GB in around 20000 seconds.
The wide SCSI-2 uses a wider data path & emdash;16 bit rather than the normal 8 bit & emdash; for the same 10 Mbps. Combining both fast and wide can, in theory, reach 20 Mbps.
USB 1.0 and 1.1 had a specified maximum data transfer rate of 12 Mbits/s. USB 2.0 has a theoretical maximum data transfer rate of 480 Mbits/s USB 3.0 will have a theoretical maximum of 4.8 Gbits/s.
8 (eight) bits to a Byte B (big B) = Byte b (little b) = bit 2MBps = 16Mbps
1,000,000/1,000 = 10001 kbps = one thousand bits per second1 mbps = one million bits per second
MBPS means Mega byte per second .It is actually the band width.In digital communication Bandwidth is measured in byte/second. Internet speed is usually quoted in Megabits per second. 1 byte = 8 bits.
1 byte = 8 bits 7 mega bits per second = 7/8 mega byte per second 1.5 mega byte per second = 12 mega bits per second
Mbps is not a file size, but a file transfer rate. It stands for "mega bits per second", in the same way that kbpsstands for "kilo bits per second".Bits, however, are different from bytes. Bytes are made of 8 bits. A kilobyte (kb) is 1024 bytes(because computing uses multiples of 4, like 8, 16, 32, 64...etc), and a megabyte (mb) is 1024 kilobytesBecause 8 bits make a byte, a kilobyte is 8192 bits, but 1024 bytes.Coming back to the question, if your transfer rate is 4 mbps, and the transfer lasts for 10 seconds, the file size is 5 megabytes.Be careful though, because Mbps = megabits per second, but MBps = megabytes per second.
Meg is short for megabyte, which is why a lot people get confused.There is a difference between, MBps and Mbps.MBps = MegaBytes per SecondMbps = Megabits per SecondNotice the difference between the upper and lower case 'b'? It matters.For instance all isp's use the Mbps = Megabits which makes it look like a good offer.If you're referring you have a '3 Meg' connection, than it's 3 Megabit (Mbit/ps or Mbps).3 Mbps = 0.375 MBps (Anotherwards it's not 1 MegaBytes)If you want 1 MBps (Megabytes) = 1 MBps = 8 MbpsIf you see an offer for 8 Mbps you'll be getting approx. 1 Megabyte down.
whatever your internet provider says i.e. 2 mbps it is'nt the real download speed the real download speed is when you divide that no. by eight because what is 2 mbps its million bits per second and we need mega bytes per second so we multiply the speed with 1024 and convert in kbps(kilo bits per second) divide it by 8 and get speed in kilo byte per second i.e. 2*1024/8=250 kbps approx.
The two are not direclty related. GB (with an uppercase "B") would be "gigabyte"; that's a unit of storage space, Gb (lowercase "b") would be "gigabit" - another unit of storage, but 8 times smaller than the first. On the other hand, mbps (megabit per second) is a unit of bandwidth - how fast data is transferred.
any non-zero number of megabits per second (mbps) will eventually download a megabyte of data, the only thing that changes is how many seconds it takes. given there are 8 bits in a byte, you do the math
It's not that much faster -- maybe a little over twice as fast. DSL gives you 1,500 Mbps and cable can go as high as 8,000 Mbps. ^ This is wrong (old answer) ^ First, 'b' is Bit, 'B' is Byte. There are 8 bits in a byte In the case of the question (Megabits per seconds): 100.0 Mbps is equivalent to 12.5 MBps (Megabytes per second). Dial up modems are (generally) capable of doing 0.056MBps (56Kbps) maximum, 100.0 Mbps (12500Kb/s) is ALOT faster!
1) Convert the 4 Mbps to MBps. (The transfer speed is specificed in mega-bits per second; 1 byte has 8 bits). That is, 4 Mbps / (8 bits/byte) = 0.5 MBps. 2) For file sizes, MB usually refer, not to a million bytes, but to 10242 bytes, so you may want to multiply the 100 MB by 1.0242. 3) Finally, divide the result the transfer speed (in BYTES per second!), to get the number of seconds. Depending on the result, you may want to convert this into minutes, hours, or even days. If you omit step 1 (confusing bits with bytes), you'll be off by a factor of 8; if you omit step 2, you'll only be about 5% off.
1mbps = 1000kbps (Kilobit (kbit/s or kb/s or kbps)1MBps = 1024kBps (Kilobyte (kB/s or kBps))8 kb (Kilobit) = 1MB (MegaByte)B = Byte, b = Bit.54Mbps or mbps is 54000kbps
1 byte = 8 bits 1 byte per second = 8 bits per second 1 million bytes per year = 8 million bits per year