Kbps / kbps, Mbps, Gbps

One kilobit per second (Kbps) equals 1000 bits per second (bps). One megabit per second (Mbps) equals one million bps and one Gigabit equals one billion bps. Network performance is best measured in bps, but sometimes numbers are given in bytes per second (Bps). One KBps equals one kilobyte per second, one MBps equals one megabyte per second, and GBps equals one gigabyte per second. KBps and Kbps are often confused with each other.

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