What do Mb, Meg, GB and Gig mean?
The different terms used – meg, mb, kb, gb and Gig – can be confusing. The smallest unit is the kilobit, often written as kb. 512 kilobits, or 512 kb as it is usually written, is the minimum speed, or transfer rate, for broadband. it actually means 512kb per second. Dial-up speeds are around 57.6 kb. On this website you will see kb in the upload speeds and in the slower download broadband speeds. The next size up is the megabit, also referred to as Mb or Meg (particularly in speech). There are 1024 kilobits (or kb) in 1 megabit. You will see this in the Download Speed fields on this website, for packages of 1Mb or above (again, 1Mb per second). A gigabyte is 1024 megabytes (a megabyte is 8 times a megabit). You will also hear it referred to as a Gig, or written as GB. On this website you will sometimes see this in the Download Allowance field. Remember that a Gig download allowance refers to an amount of data, not a transfer rate.
