What does 100.0 Mbps mean?

Answer 1

fast.

Answer 2

100 mega bits per second

or

100,000,000 bits per second

An important distinction is Mbps - mega BITS per second - bit being a single binary digit, and MBps - mega BYTES per second - a byte being 8 binary digits. 1 MBps = 8 Mbps. Unfortunatelly, the case of the b (capital or lower case) makes a big difference.

The wire uses the 100 Mbps metric, but the computer uses the MBps metric so when your computer is getting a download speed of 10 MBps, that equals 83,886,080 bps or ~ 84 Mbps - pretty close to the same thing when it comes to actually comparing the raw transfer rate using the same metric.

For most modern LAN networks - small office or home where everything is relatively close together without alot of routing equipment and switches, its the maximum speed at which a wire can carry the signal. However, this is rarely actually reached - most often, there are lags on the computers at both ends or there is a slower network in between the computers communicating over the wire.

This is why you get 2 MBps transfer speeds - you are dealing with all the other factors - computers on both ends doing the work, packets having lots of routing information that takes space rather than actual useful data exchange, slower networks in between your fast network and the computer you connect to, incompatible metrics for speed comparisons....

Basically, there are alot of factors that effect transfer speed and the wire is almost always not the limiting factor which is why you have a 100 Mbps wire but never get even close to what the average person would expect of 100 Mega Bytes per second transfer rates - they think, naturally, that their equipment is messed up or their ISP is screwing them, but its really just a misunderstanding of the numbers and the uncontrollable external effects.

Answer 3

100 Mbps Means

Answer 4

You've received basically 2 different answers so far. One stating that it means 100 Megabytes per second and one saying that it means 100 Megabits per second. The correct answer is 100 Megabits per second. If it were megabytes, the B would be capitalized. So, you have a network connection with a maximum theoretical throughput of 100 Megabits per second.

BTW, 8 bits = 1 byte, so 100 Mbps = 12.5 MBps.

Answer 5

100 Mbps means 100 Megabits per second.
1 Mbps = 1024 Kbps (Kilobytes per second)
1 Kbps = 1024 bps (Bits per second)

1 bit is the smallest level of information, which is either 0 or 1. A combination of 8 bits forms a byte. Different combination of bits are used to represent different characters, numbers and special characters.

Mbps (or Kbps or bps) is used when information is transferred from one device to another..Higher the speed means greater the rate of data transfer (i.e. lesser time taken for data transfer)

Answer 6

It stands for 100 Mbps (megabits per second) and should not to be confused with 100MBps (megabytes per second). It is a measure of bandwidth aka speed. To give you a rough idea of how fast this is.

Standard DSL Line download speed is around 1 to 7Mbps

Answer 7

100 Mbps means 100 Mega bits per second.its the transfer rate of the data.it is 100X1000000 bits pre second.and bits means 0 or 1.its the rate at which the data will be transferred.

Answer 8

It means 100 Megabits of data can be transmitted in 1 second over a connection.

You probably noticed a message in your system tray about being connected at 100Mbps, right? Network cards in your computer are commonly set to transmit data at either 10Mbps or 100Mbps. This data travels through an Ethernet cable and is received by whatever device it's connected to: another computer, a cable or DSL modem, a router, or whatever. In a nutshell, it's the maximum speed of your LAN (Local Area Network).

Keep in mind, that this is NOT the speed of your Internet connection or your WAN (Wide Area Network).

Answer 9

100 MBPS means 100 Mega Bytes Per Second
It refers to the amount of data travelling per second through your Internet Service Provider

Answer 10

100Mbps means Megabit Per Second basically it means how much data can travel down the cable in Megabit Per Second.

However in saying that you will never theoretically see 100 Megabit Per Second however would be nice lol.

1000Mbps is One Thousand Megabit Per Second which is faster then your average One Hundred Megabit Per Second.

Same again theoretically you will never see those speeds

Answer 11

100 Mega bits per second