Mangled Units of Transmission Speed Can anyone explain what units CuteFTP uses for Speed I see kbs and mbs in the CuteFTP 8 Queue Window for example but these are not valid units kbs suggests kilo byte seconds or kilo bit seconds but both are nonsense units should be either kbps or kb s Similarly mbs suggests milli byte seconds or milli bit seconds which is doubly nonsense both because it is a nonsense unit and also because even if they mean mbps or mb s it is a ridiculously small unit I realize that they probably mean Mega rather than milli but then they should use capital M Baud used to be used universally for data transmission rates and that is at least unambiguous This is all very sloppy and of course does not reflect well on GlobalScape See Data rate units also see Bit rate SI prefix Binary prefix List of device bandwidths