> I wouldn't have believed "megabytes" was an Internet speed
Perhaps HNers know better, but among lay people, pretty much no one talks about megabits. For example, people know that an MP3 is about 5MB. They know that they can email attachments up to 20MB (or sometimes 10). But I've literally never heard a lay person talk about bits, or bits per second.
And the fact that ISP's transfer caps are denominated in bytes makes things all the more confusing.
Perhaps HNers know better, but among lay people, pretty much no one talks about megabits. For example, people know that an MP3 is about 5MB. They know that they can email attachments up to 20MB (or sometimes 10). But I've literally never heard a lay person talk about bits, or bits per second.
And the fact that ISP's transfer caps are denominated in bytes makes things all the more confusing.