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CONVERT MEGABITS TO MEGABYTES USING WINDOWS CALCULATOR

This guide explains how to convert Megabits (Mb) to Megabytes (MB) using the built-in Windows Calculator app.

  • Mb is a unit of data used to measure internet speed.
  • MB is a unit of data used to measure file size.

Table of content

  1. PREREQUISITES
  2. CHANGE MEGABITS TO MEGABYTES
  3. EXAMPLE

PREREQUISITES

To follow this guide, you will need:

  • A Computer running Microsoft Windows (any recent version).
  • Access to the built-in Windows Calculator app.

CHANGE MEGABITS TO MEGABYTES

  1. Open Windows Calculator app: Click Start>Calculator.

Image 2. Switch to Data mode: select menu icon (☰) > Data.

Image 3. From the first drop-down, select Megabits. 4. From the second drop-down, select Megabytes.

Image 5. Click the input field and enter the value in Mb. 6. The equivalent value in Megabytes will be displayed automatically.

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EXAMPLE

In this example we will convert the 100 Mb to MB.

As you can see from the below picture 100 Mb is equal to 12.5 MB.

This means that:

If our internet speed is 100 Mb per second and the file size is 12.5 MB, the file will download in approximately 1 second.