WHAT IS bps?

BITS PER SECOND

bps stands for bits per second. A bit is the smallest common unit of digital information. A 100 Mbps connection represents a theoretical rate of 100 million bits each second.

BITS ≠ BYTES

Network speeds normally use lowercase b for bits. File transfer rates often use uppercase B for bytes. One byte is eight bits, so 100 Mbps has a theoretical ceiling of 12.5 MB/s.