How to Use megabit in a Sentence

megabit

noun

• 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
• 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
• Based on the results measured with the Speedtest app, Cricket and Visible had comparable performances, with download speeds of 154 megabits per second, on average.
  — Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024