Glossary Definition for: Kbps

Posted: January 14, 2018
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Stands for kilobit per second and is also often written as kb/s. A kilobit is made up of a 1000 bits,or. 125 bytes (text characters). Old telephone modems were capable of receiving 56Kbps speeds – painfully slow by today’s standards.

2G wireless networks are typically measured in Kbps.

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Cherie Ve Ard

Cherie has been a full-time technomad since 2007 joining up with her partner-in-crime Chris, and is currently splitting time exploring North America by boat and RV. Growing up in a high tech household, she was using the internet since before it was called the internet. She absolutely needed reliable connectivity to take her software development business on the road in 2007 to work remotely. After answering so many questions about mobile internet on their Technomadia blog (view their personal Mobile Internet Setup) we set out to create the Mobile Internet Resource Center to help the nomadic community stay connected.