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Average Internet speed in Europe in 2024 - Well done, Roumania (jlai.lu)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (10 children)

An average of 136 MB/s in Germany? Are they sure it's not supposed to be 136 Mbit/s, thus 17 MB/s? Because I rarely have more than 100 MB/s and I'm pretty sure my connection is one of the best you can get as a private user in this country (1 Gbit/s).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Mbps != MB/s

[–] accideath 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The image uses a capital B which technically means Bytes not bits. The misunderstanding is plausible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but the bits per seconds are always written as bps, while the bytes per second are always written as B/s

[–] accideath 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not always. Usually. If you just type MBps vs Mbps into a search engine of your choice, you’ll find quite a few sources that point out that B = Byte and b = bit.

Also, it’s even less always since there are other ways of notating datarate. Here in Germany, for example, Mbps is usually written MBit/s and MB/s stays MB/s. Similar to kph which we write km/h. Also I‘ve seen mbps written (incorrectly) with a lower case 'M' and sometimes with an uppercase M.

Technically Mb/s = Mbps ≠ MBps = MB/s, if you want to stay SI conform.

It’s simply a metric not very well suited for all caps which can cause confusion, if you’re used to different notations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

True about all caps!

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