For those of you that think that they are the exact same you are in for a shock. A Mb (with a lowercase ‘B’) is short hand for MegaBit. A MB (with an uppercase ‘B’) is short hand for MegaByte. 1 Byte is the same as 8 bits meaning that 1MB is 8Mb, you will note that whenever you are looking at ISPs they will always have their connection speed in Mbs to make it look like it is faster than it really is. If you have an internet connection that is 8Mb/s that is equivalent to say 1MB/s, your internet connection isn’t as fast as you thought is it?

You might want to remember this next time your are making your layout which is crammed full of images as filesizes on a computer are shown in byte formatting.

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