A transfer rate written as Mb/s would often be read as Megabytes a second. vs Mbps (as on their website) specifies 10 Megabits a second.
If Mb/s is being read as megabytes per second then it's being read entirely incorrectly by the reader.
M (capital) is the abbreviation for the prefix mega.
b (lower case) is the abbreviation for bit.
B (capital) is the abbreviation for byte (i.e 8 bits).
10Mb/s is Ten megabits per second.
10Mbps is also Ten megabits per second.
Neither abbreviation represents megabytes per second. That would require a capital B.
Mightymobile list the plan as 10Mbps. That is 10 megabits per second, not 10 megabytes per second (i.e 80 megabits per second)
My reaction was because 10Mb/s is exactly the same as 10Mbps. They are two variations of the same thing. One uses the slash to represent the Latin per and the other abbreviates using the first letter, lower case p.
The state of metrology education worldwide is disappointingly poor.
Next up: kW/h, confusing amps and amp-hours. If one more person gets told something consumes 1 kilowatt and they ask whether that's per second or per hour or what, I'm going to lose it.
My reaction was because 10Mb/s is exactly the same as 10Mbps. They are two variations of the same thing. One uses the slash to represent the Latin per and the other abbreviates using the first letter, lower case p.
There's also 10Mbs^-1.
Everyone knows that exponents are evaluated before implicit multiplication and that a number multiplied by the inverse of itself is equivalent to division, right? :)
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