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Computer Education 101: Bit is the smallest unit of data. Compile it into 8 units and it will be called a Byte.

The unit in measuring the speed of data transfer can either be called bits per second or bps; or bytes per second or Bps. Just simply add prefix to denote the multiplier, say kilo for 1,000, Mega for 1,000,000 and Giga for 1,000,000,000.

See the difference? Yes, the capitalization.

And that capitalization matters a lot, because what if you are to download a 2 Megabyte file, you can't download that in just 1 second with 2 Mbps speed theoretically. Simply because your actual theoretical internet speed is merely 2,000,000 bytes per second. Since 1 byte equals 8 bits, then we have to divide your current internet speed by 8 giving us 250,000 bytes per second or that is 250 KBps. Big difference huh? Oh yeah!

So theoretically, with 2 Mbps speed, you may download a 2 Megabyte file in 8 seconds.

Oh come on, its just few seconds lag. Oh really? Imagine if you are to download a 2 Gigabyte file, and so that is a lag of 133.333 minutes instead of 16.6667 minutes.