What this tool helps you find
Enter a network rate and choose source and destination units. Network speeds use decimal prefixes; converting bits to bytes divides by eight.
Formula
Divide bits per second by 8 to get bytes per second; unit prefixes scale by 1,000.
Worked example
100 Mbps ÷ 8 = 12.5 MB/s before connection overhead.
Common mistake
Capitalization matters: Mbps means megabits per second, while MB/s means megabytes per second. One byte equals eight bits.
When to use it
Understand the difference between an internet plan’s advertised speed and a file transfer app’s reported rate.
Questions and answers
Why is download speed lower than Mbps?
Internet plans use bits per second; file transfer apps often show bytes per second, and overhead reduces throughput.
Is this decimal or binary?
Network rates use decimal prefixes in this converter.