What is bandwidth

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Friday September 24, 2010

The term bandwidth is used to describe how rapidly you can

send and retrieve data

over networks like the Internet. How fast your computer loaded this page was determined by your

bandwidth, or throughput

, so it's pretty important... important enough for us to share this episode with you on

what bandwidth is

and how it affects you.

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Show Notes

- Bandwidth is a measure of how much data can pass through a connection in a given period of time.

- In computers, it's often referred to as net bit rate.

- Today, many use the term throughput when referring to bandwidth.

- Throughput is the sum of data that's delivered successfully over a communication channel.

- You can go to Bandwidth Place to test your upload and download speeds.

- Download speeds will always be greater than upload speeds.

- A broadband connection gives you more bandwidth than a dial-up connection because you're using a wider "pipe" to transfer data.

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