The 1 kilobit per second rate gives it a good resistance to sparklies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Syndicated Hack Watch Piracy Covered by Mainstream Press] Reference

Back in those days computer dudes were excited about the possibility of 28.8 kilobit modems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Speeding Up Today's Slower Internet] Reference

WilletteEchidna: Unfortunately bits can still leave you with a base-10 representation, such as "megabit" or "kilobit.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive Capacity Correctly (In Base 10) | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

Oct. 13, 1994: A six-month-old company named Mosaic Communications releases a free Web browser suitable for 14.4 kilobit modems.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Internet Bedtime Story] Reference

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).    From Wordnik.com.  [Internet Speed] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now, that's what I call BROADband] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: A music exec's take on the Macmillan/Amazon throwdown] Reference

We'll assume a fairly slow data-rate, of 1 kilobit/second.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Haskell] Reference

One kilobit is equal to one thousand bits, and 8 bits equal 1 byte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Livescience.com] Reference

'Optimum Traveler' will allow customers to link to the Internet using dial-up from any computer fitted with a 56-kilobit-per-second modem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Multichannel News: Business News] Reference

The Japanese had taken the lead in unit sales of the latest generation of DRAMs, the 256 kilobit (256K) version, but Intel was fighting back with next generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

While 1 kilobit is not a huge amount of information, the researchers consider it a leap that will make it easier to scale the technology so it can store much more data.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nano Tech Wire] Reference

For example, RTI can take advantage of up to 91 percent of the theoretical maximum bandwidth on a 256 kilobit satellite link, such as a very small aperture terminal (VSAT).    From Wordnik.com.  [Embedded Computing Design] Reference

In June 1989, however, the first international Internet connection was placed through a 56 kilobit per second satellite link that connected the University of Melbourne and the University of Hawaii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Computerworld News] Reference

So a month later, Stanford Research Institute received its interface message processor, or IMP, connected it to their host computer, and we created the first piece of the backbone network when a 50-kilobit-per-second line was connected between UCLA and SRI.    From Wordnik.com.  [WIBW - HomePage - Headlines] Reference

Even though my 20 megabit down / 2 up Internet service (the fastest available in my urban neighborhood) is far slower than what is available in, say, Japan, what really upsets me is that 2 miles away, in a slightly poorer though equally urban neighborhood, the fastest service available is 768 kilobit per second DSL.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bits] Reference

Extreme speed optimization. 2000 kilobyte (not kilobit)/s possible if your internet service provider support that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Portable Freeware Collection] Reference

T) announced huge profits, propelled mostly by its gains in mobile data usage, which may someday be priced by the kilobit, the Commission took steps to ensure that other carriers may eventually have an easier time using AT.    From Wordnik.com.  [Light Reading:] Reference

A kilobit is 1,000 bits, or about 125 characters.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Supper eigenstate prior lisping kilobit ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Brokaw: Hussein Execution ‘Resembled The Worst Kind Of Nightmare Out Of The Old American West’] Reference

Examples and comparisons with SI prefixes from: one kibibit 1 Kibit = 210 bit = 1024 bit one kilobit 1 kbit = 103 bit = 1000 bit one mebibyte 1 MiB = 220 B = 1,048,576 B one megabyte 1 MB = 106 B = 1,000,000 B one gibibyte 1 GiB = 230 B = 1,073,741,824 B one gigabyte 1 GB = 109 B = 1,000,000,000 B.    From Wordnik.com.  [Binary prefix] Reference