Question: are download speeds in bits or bytes?
Answer: People often assume that a download speed of 1 Megabit per second (1 Mbps) will allow them to download a 1 Megabyte (MBps) file in one second. This is not the case. Internet speed is measured in bits: bits, kilobits, megabits. File size is measured in bytes: bytes, kilobytes, megabytes.