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submitted 9 months ago by AstroLightz@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] pixelscript@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

I've never seen transfer rates given in MBps in the wild. It's always Mbps.

Serial network connections give no care to byte alignment, they operate either bit by bit or symbol by symbol (which are rarely byte aligned).