How to Use megabit in a Sentence

megabit

noun
  • This will check your download speed in mbps, or megabits per second.
    — Alexander George, Popular Mechanics, 15 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • For now, speeds usually top out at around 500 megabits per second.
    — Mike Freeman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2017
  • In short, speeds are usually measured in megabits per second, or Mbps.
    — Patrick Lucas Austin, Time, 21 Feb. 2020
  • This is capable of around 600 megabits per second.
    — John Burek, PC Magazine, 13 June 2026
  • Roughly 11 megabits of bandwidth is usable but far from ideal.
    — PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2024
  • The typical speed of a broadband connection to the home was less than one megabit per second.
    — Cheri Beranek, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • Initial speeds were 100 megabits per second, to rise tenfold within a year.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The fiber is capable of transmission rates of 100 megabits per second or greater.
    — Adrian Sainz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Speed of connection is normally measured in megabits per second.
    — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Most of us are also familiar with using megabits per second (Mbps) to calculate speed.
    — PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • So Lightning cables have been limited to 480 megabits per second.
    — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023
  • That’s 60 times faster than the national average of 30 Mbps (megabits per second).
    — Bob O'Donnell, USA TODAY, 29 July 2019
  • 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
  • Apple and other providers recommend up to 25 megabits per second for 4K HDR movies.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Starlink, which provides speeds up to 150 megabits per second (Mbps), wins its second straight Readers’ Choice award.
    — Ben Gottesman, PCMAG, 17 May 2023
  • For instance, Sprint’s new service in Dallas is reportedly running at 300 megabits or more.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 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
  • 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
  • The system is designed to send data down to Earth at up to 260 megabits per second—far higher than the radio links earlier missions relied on.
    — Adam Bluestein, Scientific American, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The prototype neuromorphic chip uses a one megabit bank of resistive RAM built on top of a processor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2017
  • 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 startup’s technology enabled video to be distributed in the home over Wi-Fi at data rates of 600 megabits per second.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2024
  • High-speed broadband is broadly defined as broadband service with a download speed of at least 100 megabits per second and an upload speed of 20 Mbps.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Deakin says users will get 200 megabits per second (Mbps) of connectivity directly into their smartphones from Stratomast.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 24 Nov. 2025
  • 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 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
  • Blue Origin claims the satellites positioned in medium Earth orbit will reach speeds of 6 terabits per second, which is much faster than the hundreds of megabits offered by today’s leading satellite networks.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Jan. 2026

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