Of course Xfinity uses the Mbps unit of measure. They tell me I should get 600 Mbps per second. Sounds fast. I noticed another unit of measure a day or two ago, (maybe I m behind the times,) which prompted my to visit good ole Wikipedia. My suspicions were correct too. I m not getting the speed I th…

I forgot about speedtest-cli. ❯ speedtest-cli Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Testing from Comcast Cable (xx.xxx.xxx.xxx)... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Selecting best server based on ping... Hosted by Rural Telecommunications of America, Inc. (Chicago, IL) [37.41 km]: 22.933 …

[image] UncleSpellbinder: Download: 873.14 Mbit/s I dream of even approaching this speed :rofl:

I’m not saying I’m unhappy at all—quite the opposite. It’s just that this whole Mbit/s vs. MB/s thing is a bit confusing. I guess it’s kind of like Fahrenheit vs. Celsius?

More like hundreds and thousands

Well 1000s and 1024s :wink: Oops, and bits vs bytes (x8) (lol almost forgot that..haven’t worried about bits in decades)

[image] UncleSpellbinder: I guess it’s kind of like Fahrenheit vs. Celsius? This is to be understood in the context of bits and bytes. Read here [image] Megabytes, Megabits, Gbps & TB: What you need to know Confused about megabits and megabytes? We’ll explain what the difference …

Great explanation! This, in particular… The term “megabits” is almost always used to show how much data you can transfer across a network in a second, abbreviated as Mbps. For example, an internet connection may have a bandwidth (or speed) of up to 940Mbps. The term “megabytes” is almost always us…

[image] UncleSpellbinder: I’m not saying I’m unhappy at all—quite the opposite I just have a bike without a chain with a flat tire and you have a Jaguar :rofl:

[image] UncleSpellbinder: My internet plan is 900 Mbps. I have no issues at all with speeds. I think seeing this discussion/thread got me concerned about something that I shouldn’t be concerned with. 500Mb is really enough for most of what you do on the Internet in a household. Streaming, sha…

[image] UncleSpellbinder: So, Mbps or Mb/s isn’t accurate? Or it’s a “scam” to make it sound faster than it is? Neither. There’s also transport overhead (essentially metadata needed for the transfer and processing of the data you actually receive as an end-user). Usually a ±10% is perfectly …

The difference between Mbps and MB/s

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This is to be understood in the context of bits and bytes. Read here

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