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Mac Download Speed Slow10/19/2021
In other words, the byte system that your operating system uses is a bunch of bits strung together in groups of eight.RELATED: Why You Probably Aren't Getting the Internet Speeds You're Paying For (and How to Tell)This difference is where, on the surface, it all seems to fall apart. Another term, used by computer scientists to avoid confusion over the different size byte structures out there in the world, is octet. A byte, however, is a unit of digital information that (in many operating systems, including Windows) is eight bits long. A bit, as we’ve established, is the tiniest unit of measurement in the digital kingdom, that primordial 1 or 0. Computer storage is not measured in bits, it’s measured in bytes. Originally, networks were so slow that their speed was measured in just bits, but as network speeds increased, we started measuring internet speed in kilobits per second (remember 56k modems? That meant 56 kilobits per second), and now, megabits per second.Now, here’s where things get confusing for the average non-geeky-Joe.
Speed Slow Download Speed You(Note the MB vs Mb notation.)If we divide the speed of your connection (measured in megabits) by 8, we arrive at something resembling the download speed you’re seeing in your speed tests: 40 megabits divided by 8 becomes 5 megabytes. So when you see that download chugging along at 5MB/s, that means megabytes per second–as opposed to your 40Mb/s, or megabits per second, internet package. But your operating system and all the apps on it (web browsers, download helpers, torrent clients, etc.) all measure data in mega bytes, not megabits.![]() ![]()
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