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About these units
Kilobit (kb)
A kilobit represents 1,000 bits (decimal), commonly used in telecommunications and networking. Unlike computer storage, networking units generally favor decimal prefixes, making kilobits distinct from kibibits (1024-bit units). Kilobits are often used to express low-bandwidth data rates—such as early dial-up Internet speeds (e.g., 56 kbps), small sensor networks, or radio telemetry. Though kilobits appear small today, many communication systems still operate efficiently at kilobit speeds, especially low-power IoT devices designed for long battery life and minimal bandwidth usage.
Megabyte (10^6 bytes) (MB (10^6))
A decimal megabyte equals 1,000,000 bytes, used widely for describing hard disk storage, file sizes, and digital media capacity. Manufacturers favor decimal prefixes because they produce cleaner, larger-sounding numbers compared to binary equivalents. For example, a "500 MB" device would be smaller in binary units. Consumers and engineers must interpret megabytes within context, distinguishing whether a manufacturer intends binary or decimal. Although decimal megabytes dominate mass-storage descriptions, binary megabytes remain common in system memory and software.