How to Use megabit in a Sentence

megabit

noun
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  • As people per square mile goes down, the cost of megabits per second jets up.
    — Scott Canon, kansascity, 17 July 2017
  • Below are the results of speed tests, in megabits per second.
    — Tamara Chuang, The Denver Post, 27 Apr. 2017
  • This will check your download speed in mbps, or megabits per second.
    — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 15 Oct. 2018
  • These days, speeds are measured in megabits per second.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • The typical speed of a broadband connection to the home was less than one megabit per second.
    — Cheri Beranek, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • For now, speeds usually top out at around 500 megabits per second.
    — Mike Freeman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2017
  • The fiber is capable of transmission rates of 100 megabits per second or greater.
    — Adrian Sainz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Initial speeds were 100 megabits per second, to rise tenfold within a year.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
  • In short, speeds are usually measured in megabits per second, or Mbps.
    — Patrick Lucas Austin, Time, 21 Feb. 2020
  • That’s 60 times faster than the national average of 30 Mbps (megabits per second).
    — Bob O'Donnell, USA TODAY, 29 July 2019
  • While the Fires were only about half as fast as the pricier iPad, 48 megabits a second was more than enough to smoothly stream video and quickly download apps and e-books.
    — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 6 June 2017
  • But the upload speed will be 35 megabits per second because of the architecture of the cable network.
    — Bob Fernandez, Philly.com, 19 June 2017
  • Apple and other providers recommend up to 25 megabits per second for 4K HDR movies.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Roughly 11 megabits of bandwidth is usable but far from ideal.
    — PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Starlink, which provides speeds up to 150 megabits per second (Mbps), wins its second straight Readers’ Choice award.
    — Ben Gottesman, PCMAG, 17 May 2023
  • More than 350 megabits of data have already been downloaded.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
  • While the Kindle Fires were only about half as fast as the pricier iPad, 48 megabits a second was more than enough to smoothly stream video and quickly download apps and e-books.
    — Brian X. Chen, The Seattle Times, 9 June 2017
  • The weather was ideal, but broadband performance was dismal: 29 megabits down and 24 up.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
  • So Lightning cables have been limited to 480 megabits per second.
    — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Speeds can top 1 megabit per second, which is essentially the gap between a 3G and 4G cellular network.
    — Clifford Atiyeh, Car and Driver, 29 Jan. 2018
  • That beats ViaSat’s current baseline plans, which start at 12 megabits per second but have usage caps around 10 gigabits per month.
    — Mike Freeman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 June 2017
  • The commission defines broadband as having a minimum download speed of 25 megabits per second, or Mbps, and an upload speed of 3Mbps.
    — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Brumfield said problems still exist with wireless internet service, such as dense trees that tend to slow down internet speeds up to 200 megabits.
    — Michelle Iracheta, Houston Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2018
  • For instance, Sprint’s new service in Dallas is reportedly running at 300 megabits or more.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2019
  • According to the standard, such devices should be able to send and receive data at speeds between 10 megabits per second and 9.6 gigabits per second.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Speed of connection is normally measured in megabits per second.
    — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Using a Telebras satellite, the two companies expect to offer up to 25 megabits per second speeds to Community Wi-Fi users.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2019
  • Son said individual customers will be able to access the Internet at a speed of at least 1 megabit per second, and corporate clients at a speed of 1 gigabit per second.
    — Wired News Report, WIRED, 11 Aug. 1999
  • Today’s 4G LTE mobile networks can send multiple megabits of signals per second over a distance of thousands of kilometers with less than 100 ms delay.
    — Bill Huang, Scientific American Blog Network, 2 Aug. 2017
  • ViaSat-1 delivers 12 megabits per second speeds to households and airline passengers.
    — Mike Freeman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017

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