Question: are megabytes and megabits the same?
Answer: In simple terms, 1 MegaByte = 8 Megabits, so if your broadband connection was running at 8 Megabits per second (“Mbps”) then that means you could reasonably expect to download that file in the space of a second; this could perhaps also be expressed as 1 MegaByte per second (“MBps”).