Question / Help KiloBITS or KiloBYTES?

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Zander490

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Sorry for asking a rather lame question like this, but I honestly can't tell. Does the OBS use kilobits or kilobytes as a measurement? And is that the same as the Estimator measurements? And while I'm at it, does Speedtest.net use megabits or bytes? I tried looking around for an answer but I honestly couldn't find anything solid. I think capitalization is supposed to be the difference, but even that seems inconsistent in places. Thanks in advance, since I'm sure someone out there knows.
 
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tehguy

Member
Generally, connection speed is measured in bits per second, and file size is measured in bytes. The B should be uppercase for byte and lowercase for bit.
 
Sapiens

Sapiens

Forum Moderator
Kbps = Kilobits per second
KBps = Kilobytes per second
Mbps = Megabits per second
MBps = Megabytes per second

The settings estimator and OBS use Kbps. Speedtest uses Mbps. Your browser shows download speed in KBps and MBps.
 
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