I get that with ADSL it's Megabits per second and is normally typed Mbps and there are 8 Bits to a Byte normally typed as MB/s but if I'm looking at older routers / switches that are 10/100 with the newer ones being quoted as 1000 are they talking about Bits or Bytes???
Also if I copy and paste a file across a network on Windows and use the drop down box to see the transfer speed say at approx 50 to 70 again is that Bits or Bytes and is there any difference then between if it's Wired or Wireless
Also if I see a Wireless network card speeds quoted as 300/857, does that mean 300 upload vs 857 download or i sit the difference between 2.4 and 5GHz and they're talking megabits .... so in a perfect world with no data loss (appreciate that doesn't happen) if I'm transferring a file from a wireless laptop to a wired device on the network the maximum upload speed will 300 divided by 8 = 37.5 megabytes .... is that correct.
I appreciate these are probably pretty rudimentary questions to someone who's been interested in IT for a while but it's relatively new to me and any help would be much appreciated.
Also if I copy and paste a file across a network on Windows and use the drop down box to see the transfer speed say at approx 50 to 70 again is that Bits or Bytes and is there any difference then between if it's Wired or Wireless
Also if I see a Wireless network card speeds quoted as 300/857, does that mean 300 upload vs 857 download or i sit the difference between 2.4 and 5GHz and they're talking megabits .... so in a perfect world with no data loss (appreciate that doesn't happen) if I'm transferring a file from a wireless laptop to a wired device on the network the maximum upload speed will 300 divided by 8 = 37.5 megabytes .... is that correct.
I appreciate these are probably pretty rudimentary questions to someone who's been interested in IT for a while but it's relatively new to me and any help would be much appreciated.