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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation kilobits per second
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Examples
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Broadband caps, as mentioned many times on this website, are ridiculous and should be abolished; but at the same time 768 Kbps is far too slow.
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But 512 Kbps is not 50-80 Kbps. It's 10 times faster.
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For many people, working on 512 Kbps is like working in an office, while 50-80 Kbps is sucking at a straw.
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But he starts to fall down when he says that hundreds of Kbps is what he gets from hot spots not 11 Mbps. I agree that hot spots may advertise 11 Mbps networks, and that's overstating the case.
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The fastest “at home” service AT&T offers in Atlanta is 6 Mbps/512 Kbps, which is pitiful.
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T hitting average download speed 812 Kbps and average upload speed 660 Kbps, which is the highest among its rivals.
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Our correspondent achieve 121 Kbps which is only possible with EDGE, GPRS's 2. 5G successor, and a step on the road to W-CDMA's broadband speeds.
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Realisticlly taking 18 hours usage it turns out to be 237GB. and if downgraded to 768 Kbps it will be 177GB.
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BSNL does have a 256 Kbps unlimited plan for Rs 700 ($14) though.
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Airtel provides the most stable connectivity, ‘Unlimited plans’ are around Rs 799 ($16) for 256 Kbps, Rs 999 ($20) for 384 Kbps and Rs 1399 ($28) for 512 Kbps Unlimited.
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