Mibit/s to Gbps
1 mebibit per second equals 0.001048576 gigabits per second exactly.
How to convert mebibits per second to gigabits per second
To convert mebibits per second to gigabits per second, multiply the number of mebibits per second by 0.001048576. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply gigabits per second by 953.6743164 (rounded).
gigabits per second = mebibits per second × 0.001048576
Example: 10 mebibits per second = 0.01048576 gigabits per second.
Network speeds are quoted in bits per second (lowercase b), while file sizes use bytes (uppercase B). Divide Mbps by 8 for MB/s.
About these units
Mebibit Per Second (Mibit/s)
1,048,576 bits per second.
Mebibits per second sit one binary step above the kibibit and measure the speeds of links and streams when a strict power of two is wanted. Mebi comes from mega with the same bi ending, and the quantity is 2 to the power 20, or 1,048,576. The IEC prefixes were meant to end a long confusion in computing, where kilo, mega and giga had been used for powers of 2 even though the SI gives them powers of 10.
The arithmetic is simple. One mebibit per second is 1,048,576 bits per second, which equals 131,072 bytes per second and is about 4.86 percent more than a decimal megabit per second. Wikipedia's article on data-rate units notes that decimal prefixes are typically used for data rates, so the mebibit per second is a precise but uncommon alternative. The IEEE adopted the prefix names in 1996 with the symbols Ki, Mi and Gi, and its standard 1541-2002 became a full-use standard in 2005.
1 mebibit per second = 1,048,576 bits per second (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Binary prefix; Wikipedia: Data-rate units; NIST: Prefixes for binary multiples
Gigabit Per Second (Gbps)
1,000,000,000 bits per second. Fiber and Ethernet speeds are quoted in Gbps.
Gigabit Ethernet came in two stages. IEEE 802.3z, produced in June 1998, was the first version and required optical fiber. IEEE 802.3ab, ratified in 1999, defined 1000BASE-T over four twisted pairs of ordinary copper cabling, which is what turned a backbone technology into something that could reach desktops. Over time, one gigabit per second became a built-in feature of many computers.
A gigabit per second is 1,000,000,000 bit/s, or 125 MB/s once the eight bits in a byte are accounted for. At that speed an ideal transfer of a 4.7 GB single-layer DVD image takes about 38 seconds. Ten Gigabit Ethernet, first defined in IEEE 802.3ae in 2002 and extended to twisted pair by 802.3an in 2006, multiplies this by ten and is common in data centers. Cable and DSL providers also quote gigabit figures; the G.fast DSL standard from 2014 tops out at 1 Gbit/s.
1 gigabit per second = 1,000,000,000 bits per second (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Gigabit Ethernet; Wikipedia: 10 Gigabit Ethernet; Wikipedia: Gigabyte (DVD capacity)
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