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I wish we can all move to MB/s and get rid of the endless confusion on names
I say we split the different and go for nibbles per fortnight.
Mbps, megabits per second, is the standard. No idea why this author opted to use the highly unusual millibit.
The reason we don't is because the network does not care how the files you transfer are formatted.
It measure the amount of bits it can transfer.
Whether the file in question is for example a text document (8bit) or a HEIF (10bit)