> Speedtest kept reporting 100Mb/s range speeds (the tier he was paying for). Local file transfers however were stuck in the 1MB/s range

I read that speed test reported 100Mb/s and local files were receiving 8Mb/s (1MB/s). Either interpretation doesn’t change the intent much. But now I’m curious if the MB was intentional.

I don’t really care what the normal convention is, but the fact that Mbps and MB/s are sometimes used interchangeably does cause confusion, especially outside this environment.

Was the choice to use Mbps as a standard a marketing idea? Like they have 1 MB/s? Well we have 8 Mb/s.