Data transfer rate

Worked example

Value: 1
Source unit: MB/s
Target unit: Mbit/s
Decimal places: 8
Notation: Decimal

→ 8 Mbit/s

Method and scope

Rates are payload units per second. Bits and bytes differ by eight; protocol overhead and actual network throughput are not estimated.

y = x × f₁ / f₂

Sources

• NIST — Conversion factors
• Unicode CLDR — Unit definitions
• NIST — Binary prefixes