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Your internet plan says 100Mbps — but there's a trap in the lowercase b.

Roughly how fast will files actually download?

About 12.5MB per second — bits and Bytes differ by 8x
Networks are marketed in bits (b), but files are measured in Bytes (B). That's why downloads feel like an eighth of the advertised number — one letter, eight times the difference.
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