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The relic of the early internet age has been mostly replaced by high-speed broadband, which can be thousands of times faster than the top dialup speed of 56 kilobits a second in ideal conditions.
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David Matthews, New York Daily News, 11 Aug. 2025
The fastest consumer modems topped out at 56 kilobits per second under ideal conditions.
—ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
At its height, a dial-up connection could manage up to 56 kilobits per second under ideal conditions, according to Apple Insider.
—James Powel, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2025
Ultimately, average 2G download speeds were about 40 kilobits per second, while 3G eventually would boast up to 8 megabits per second.
—Julianne Pepitone, IEEE Spectrum, 25 July 2025
At Jupiter, the spacecraft transmitted data at 115.2 kilobits per second; now, that rate has slowed to 40 bits per second, and faster modes can be overwritten.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2024
With many shims capping the space at 32 kilobits, this capacity could be close to running out of space.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2024
If your application needs relatively low bandwidth, so, many of the IoT applications need kilobits per second, which is a very low rate.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
The researchers were able to send 72 kilobits of data per second—or the equivalent of 4,600 characters per second.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2020
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David Matthews, New York Daily News, 11 Aug. 2025
The fastest consumer modems topped out at 56 kilobits per second under ideal conditions.
—ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
At its height, a dial-up connection could manage up to 56 kilobits per second under ideal conditions, according to Apple Insider.
—James Powel, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2025
Ultimately, average 2G download speeds were about 40 kilobits per second, while 3G eventually would boast up to 8 megabits per second.
—Julianne Pepitone, IEEE Spectrum, 25 July 2025
At Jupiter, the spacecraft transmitted data at 115.2 kilobits per second; now, that rate has slowed to 40 bits per second, and faster modes can be overwritten.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2024
With many shims capping the space at 32 kilobits, this capacity could be close to running out of space.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2024
If your application needs relatively low bandwidth, so, many of the IoT applications need kilobits per second, which is a very low rate.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
The researchers were able to send 72 kilobits of data per second—or the equivalent of 4,600 characters per second.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2020
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“Kilobit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kilobit. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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