MBPS OR MB/S ???? Helpp

[Rpbones]

Hi, poeple have gotten me really mixed up. I understand 8 mbps is 1 mb. To stream on twitch, do you need 5mbps or 5mb? If 5mb, how the hell do you get that connection? The most expensive plan in my state is $100 a month and gives 20mbps and 2.5 mb/s. So is it 5mbps for twitch I need or 5mb/s? Thanks!

 

[Someone Somewhere]

8 mbps is 1 mb

Nope. Just nope.

The basic unit of data is the binary digit, or bit. This is abbreviated to b. It is rare to find these used for anything but transfer rates.

These are typically arranged into groups of eight, called either octets (rare outside professional networking) or bytes (B).

The S.I prefix Mega, or M (not to be confused with mili, or m, means times one million. One megalitre is one million litres , one megabyte is one million bytes.

A slash (/) or lower case p means per. Like kilometers per hour. A slash is usually preferred, as it cannot be confused with pico.

And finally, a lower case s stands for seconds.

A megabyte (MB) is an amount of data. A megabyte per second (MB/s or MBps) is a rate of data transfer, as is a megabit per second (Mb/s or Mbps), though this is one eighth the size.

For twitch, I would expect it to be 5Mb/s UPLOAD. Download is unlikely to matter.