dsgrue3 on 17 April 2013
| FrancisNobleman said: Someone explain gigabits vs gigabytes to the crowd please. I've heard a friend complaining he has a fine ass connection of 150 mb per second but he can't download a half a gig file in under 4 seconds like we was supposed to. |
8 bits in a byte.
If your connection is 2 Gb (bit, lowercase "b") you divide by 8 to get bytes. 2gigabit = 2000 megabits = 250 megabytes.
150mb = 18.75megabytes, half a gig file (500MB) would take roughly 27 seconds.
