Bandwidth

Bandwidth (computing)

The asymptotic bandwidth formally asymptotic throughput for a network is the measure of maximum throughput for a greedy source , for example when the message size the number of packets per second from a source approaches infinity. Asymptotic bandwidths are usually estimated by sending a number of very large messages through the network, measuring the end-to-end throughput.

As other bandwidths, the asymptotic bandwidth is measured in multiples of bits per seconds. Digital bandwidth may also refer to: In Web hosting service , the term bandwidth is often incorrectly used to describe the amount of data transferred to or from the website or server within a prescribed period of time, for example bandwidth consumption accumulated over a month measured in gigabytes per month.

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A similar situation can occur for end user ISPs as well, especially where network capacity is limited for example in areas with underdeveloped internet connectivity and on wireless networks. This table shows the maximum bandwidth the physical layer net bitrate of common Internet access technologies.

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Bandwidth has several related meanings: Bandwidth (signal processing) or analog bandwidth, frequency bandwidth or radio bandwidth, a measure of the width. In computing, bandwidth is the maximum rate of data transfer across a given path . Bandwidth may be characterized as network bandwidth, data bandwidth.

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Bandwidth and Data Transfer

While bandwidth is used to describe network speeds, it does not measure how fast bits of data move from one location to another. Since data packets travel over electronic or fiber optic cables , the speed of each bit transferred is negligible. Instead, bandwidth measures how much data can flow through a specific connection at one time. When visualizing bandwidth, it may help to think of a network connection as a tube and each bit of data as a grain of sand.

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If you pour a large amount of sand into a skinny tube, it will take a long time for the sand to flow through it. If you pour the same amount of sand through a wide tube, the sand will finish flowing through the tube much faster.

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Similarly, a download will finish much faster when you have a high-bandwidth connection rather than a low-bandwidth connection. Data often flows over multiple network connections, which means the connection with the smallest bandwidth acts as a bottleneck.

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Generally, the Internet backbone and connections between servers have the most bandwidth, so they rarely serve as bottlenecks. Instead, the most common Internet bottleneck is your connection to your ISP.

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Look up bandwidth in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. What we do Why us? Because this can make the network feel faster, high bandwidth networks and connections often are called "high-speed". How to connect to wifi on an iPhone. The term bandwidth is also loosely used to refer to the rate at which data can be transmitted over a given communications circuit.

Bandwidth also refers to a range of frequencies used to transmit a signal.