How to Use gigabit in a Sentence

gigabit

noun

• Google dropped plans to serve Portland in 2016 but the gigabit tax break remained on the books.
  — Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• The new Nighthawk features five gigabit ports and two USB 3.0 ports on its rear.
  — Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, 11 Jan. 2021
• The dock also packs six USB 3.0 ports (two on the front, four in the back) and a gigabit Ethernet port.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
• This is a 3-pack and offers three gigabit Ethernet ports on the main router and two on the nodes.
  — WIRED, 22 June 2023
• Satellite providers are not allowed to bid in the gigabit tier.
  — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2020
• Plans to add gigabit internet speeds to the city have been in the works since 2015 when the company approached the city.
  — Michelle Iracheta, Houston Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2018
• The service offers broadband speeds of up to one gigabit per second, and is priced at $50 a month.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
• Wi-Fi 5 can reach speeds of up to one gigabit, and Wi-Fi 6 has been designed to reach speeds over two gigabits.
  — Rick Welday, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• The signal is distributed by routers that can reach speeds of up to 9.6 gigabits per second.
  — Angelica Mari, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
• In tests of the system, the uplink could send 4 gigabits per second while adding just 176 femtojoules per bit of heat.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Mar. 2023
• The Verge’s Chris Welch tested it out and saw gigabit download speeds, which is a boon for downloading a bunch of videos very quickly.
  — Cameron Faulkner, The Verge, 12 June 2019
• With Google Fiber out of the picture, Comcast stands to be the major beneficiary of the gigabit tax break.
  — Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com, 5 July 2017
• Even in the age of next-day delivery, self-checkout, and gigabit internet, some things can't be rushed.
  — Car and Driver, 11 July 2022
• With the death of the gigabit tax break repeal, attention now turns to the Oregon Department of Revenue.
  — Mike Rogoway, OregonLive.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• The standard Ookla Speedtest app showed a download speed of 1.3 gigabits per second.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Today, speeds as high as 1 gigabit per second are commonplace in much of the United States.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
• Each Vilo unit is a router with three gigabit Ethernet ports.
  — Simon Hill, Wired, 27 Oct. 2021
• More than a third of Sonic’s customers are on its gigabit fiber service, and the company is moving fast to deploy more fiber.
  — Sophia Kunthara, SFChronicle.com, 26 July 2019
• One our favorites is Netgear's Nighthawk AC 1750 gigabit router.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 20 Feb. 2019
• The router also supports LAN aggregation that allows for two gigabit ports to act as a 2Gbps port.
  — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 14 Mar. 2023
• Each access point also has a 1 GHz quad-core processor and 2 gigabit ports.
  — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2022
• Still, smartphone data addicts shouldn't hold their breath for speeds of 10 gigabits per second.
  — Wired Staff, Wired, 17 Dec. 2019
• For now, Qualcomm has a lead in modem technology and was the first vendor to offer gigabit modems.
  — Agam Shah, PCWorld, 28 Apr. 2017
• These high-band airwaves will provide download speeds of 1 gigabit per second or more.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2021
• Wi-Fi 6 is capable of transmitting data at speeds of more than a gigabit.
  — Dallas News, 10 Feb. 2022
• That may not sound very fast, but moving that same amount of information over a single 1 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) line would take 20 years.
  — Barb Darrow, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2017
• Allo leases and operates the system, which can provide speeds of up to 1 gigabit.
  — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2019
• While the company touts the high-speed internet would be at gigabit speeds, actual speeds would be around 500 megabits per second, McLeod said.
  — Michelle Iracheta, Houston Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2018
• This is Eero's first tri-band mesh router that utilizes the latest Wi-Fi 7 standard, promising roughly double the speeds of its previous flagship system, up to 4.3 gigabits per second.
  — WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
• The two laser telescopes are exchanging data at 1.2 gigabits per second, according to NASA.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024