[JamesK]

I'm not a fan of how ISPs and even speed test reports in bits and not bytes

Digital bandwidth has always been measured in bits/sec. Data was not always in 8 bit bytes. For example, years ago, teletypes used 5 data bits per character or 7 or 8... Even computers had different size words or bytes. Some models of mag tape drives stored data in 6 bit bytes etc. Many services, such as VoIP also use bits/sec.