Megabits per second to gigabits per second – and gigabits per second to megabits per second
1 Mbit/s = 0.001 Gbit/s
All units in this category
- 100,000,000bit/s
- 100,000kbit/s
- 100Mbit/s
- 0.1Gbit/s
- 12,500,000B/s
- 12,500kB/s
- 12.5MB/s
- 0.0125GB/s
Formula
Multiply the value in megabits per second by 0.001 to get gigabits per second.Gbit/s = Mbit/s × 0.001
Multiply the value in gigabits per second by 1,000 to get megabits per second.Mbit/s = Gbit/s × 1,000
How to convert megabits per second to gigabits per second
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Megabits per second to gigabits per second – common values
| Megabits per second (Mbit/s) | Gigabits per second (Gbit/s) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0.001 |
| 2 | 0.002 |
| 5 | 0.005 |
| 10 | 0.01 |
| 25 | 0.025 |
| 50 | 0.05 |
| 100 | 0.1 |
| 250 | 0.25 |
| 500 | 0.5 |
| 1,000 | 1 |
Gigabits per second to megabits per second – common values
| Gigabits per second (Gbit/s) | Megabits per second (Mbit/s) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1,000 |
| 2 | 2,000 |
| 5 | 5,000 |
| 10 | 10,000 |
| 25 | 25,000 |
| 50 | 50,000 |
| 100 | 100,000 |
| 250 | 250,000 |
| 500 | 500,000 |
| 1,000 | 1,000,000 |
About the units
Megabits per second. Megabits per second is the unit broadband, wifi and mobile networks are sold in: a million bits per second, 125,000 bytes per second. The EU open internet regulation requires the contract to explain the minimum, normally available, maximum and advertised speed, but names no unit – the megabit is trade practice. The trap is the factor of eight: 100 megabits per second gives 12.5 megabytes per second in the download window. Networking always counts decimally, while file sizes are often shown in binary.
Gigabits per second. Gigabits per second is a thousand million bits per second, 125 megabytes per second or 1,000 megabits per second. The unit measures fibre connections, data centre networks and Ethernet standards. A 5 GB film takes 40 seconds in theory. Two traps. A gigabit line does not give gigabytes per second – there is the factor of eight. And real throughput is always below the link speed, because the protocols take their share; that is why EU rules separate maximum from normally available speed.