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Megabit/sec vs. Megabytes

Talking about network speed and cumulated data traffic has a good analogy with your car

speed and traveled distance.

Car speed is expressed in miles-per-hour or kilometers-per-hour while network speed and

bandwidth are expressed in bits-per-second or its multiples like Megabit/sec (Mbps).

Traveled distance is expressed in miles or kilometers. For data traffic we talk about Bytes or

multiples like kB (kilobyte), MB (Megabyte) or GB (1 Gigabyte = 1024 MB).

Internet Security Check

The Internet Security Check looks for potential vulnerabilities on the public



 side of your Internet

connection.

Such vulnerabilities can be rooted into devices and applications that, to work well, need to be

exposed



 directly on the public Internet.

It’s perfectly normal to expose home devices if they are designed to securely work on the public

Internet, such as surveillance cameras and game consoles or applications like Skype and

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