• CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I think it’s common parlance to use Mbps and mbps interchangeably since nothing uses “millibits” as a unit of measurement. More commonly people misuse Mbps and MBps which is incorrect since it signifies bits and bytes.

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      1 year ago

      To avoid the Mb/MB confusion I’ve gotten in the habit of writing Mbit and MByte, so there’s really no ambiguity (like, even if I used them right, it’s reasonable that people might not be sure if I’m using them right or not)

      At least when talking about network-related things, particularly transfer rates. With storage and things it’s way more rare that anyone might be talking about bits.