kilobit

• “Back in those days computer dudes were excited about the possibility of 28.8 kilobit modems.”

  Forbes: Speeding Up Today's Slower Internet

• “When I was working for Infolibria a decade 1 ago I was one of the testers of unified server farm which had more than 20 servers, content storage, and could deliver 20,000 simultaneously streams of 300 kilobit per second digital video on-demand from whatever combination of stored canned content was in storage and live streaming video available for the system to replicate.”

  Making Light: A music exec's take on the Macmillan/Amazon throwdown

• “If people are forced to pay per kilobit it's like they are forced to pay per word of a book," said Todd Weaver, chief executive of Ivi, a Seattle-based video streaming company.”

  The Washington Post: FCC's pay-as-you-go Internet plan raises video, access questions

• “WilletteEchidna: Unfortunately bits can still leave you with a base-10 representation, such as "megabit" or "kilobit.”

  Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive Capacity Correctly (In Base 10) | Lifehacker Australia

• “Lacking other options, we signed up, and a short while later we had a “blazing” 128 kilobit-per-second internet connection – at almost 10 times the cost of much faster broadband in the U.S.”

  Wolfram Blog : Work in the Land of Lakes and Volcanoes (Trabajo en la Tierra de Lagos y Volcanes)

• “You 512 kilobit or 64 kilobyte connection usually averages about 411 down by 64 up if we are talking kilobits or 51 down by 8 up if we are talking in kilobytes (Lakeside)”

  Internet Speed

• “Oct. 13, 1994: A six-month-old company named Mosaic Communications releases a free Web browser suitable for 14.4 kilobit modems.”

  An Internet Bedtime Story

• “The total amount of data transmitted during this challenge—500 terabytes—would take about 250 years to download using a typical 512 kilobit per second household broadband connection.”

  Now, that's what I call BROADband

• “The 1 kilobit per second rate gives it a good resistance to sparklies.”

  Syndicated Hack Watch Piracy Covered by Mainstream Press

• “The video connect is a little uneven, but we've seen that kind of thing get fixed over time - we are talking a 150 kilobit stream here, less than a typical Wifi connection.”

  Forbes.com: News

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