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FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps (docs.fcc.gov)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it's common parlance to use Mbps and mbps interchangeably since nothing uses "millibits" as a unit of measurement. More commonly people misuse Mbps and MBps which is incorrect since it signifies bits and bytes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

To avoid the Mb/MB confusion I've gotten in the habit of writing Mbit and MByte, so there's really no ambiguity (like, even if I used them right, it's reasonable that people might not be sure if I'm using them right or not)

At least when talking about network-related things, particularly transfer rates. With storage and things it's way more rare that anyone might be talking about bits.