What is the difference between speed and bandwidth?

Answer 1

Difference between Internet speed and bandwidth

internet speed and bandwidth are technically different. Bandwidth is referring the maximum amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time through the network while speed is the time taken to reach the data (in form of packets) from source to destination. So we can see bandwidth is a fixed one while network speed can vary. Network speed depends on many factors like the protocol using to send data, server efficiency ,network conjunction etc. In practical life a

user feels the Internet speed by downloading certain files from server to his computer. Yes it is true high bandwidth really helps to download the file faster but there are some other factors are there. If he is downloading the file (consider a big

file like video) from a slow server, he feels his Internet speed is very less. Actually his Internet bandwidth is good enough but the speed of data transfer is limited by the response delay of the remote server.

Another factor really affect the Internet speed is the kind of protocol they use. The speed of data transfer vary depends on whether this connection is using a connection oriented protocol (TCP) or connection less protocol (UDP). As there is no error detection and synchronizing ,data transfer using UDP is always faster than the same in TCP. Here Internet bandwidth is a constant but the Internet speed vary.

So in a nutshell Internet speed and Internet bandwidth are different. Internet bandwidth is the one which is assigned by your ISP and which is a constant (as long as your ISP keeps its promise) while Internet speed vary with remote server and the

protocol they use to send data.

bandwidth is just a pipe and the speed is the amount of water that passes through...

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Answer 2

The difference between baud and bandwidth is that Bandwidth is the measure of bit rate, measured in bits per second, while baud is measured by symbols per second or pulses per second. This means that bandwidth is measured by the number or bits that are processed over a given timeframe, while baud measures the amount of symbol changes over a given timeframe. In digital systems, 1 baud is equivalent to 1 bit, however with analog systems, the rate varies.

Answer 3

broadband is expration to high bandwidth ,that mean when we use a high

bandwidth like 100Gb/sec must we have egupment that sustain this high bandwidht ,because that there are call this high bandwidth brodband or

widthband .

thank you.

eng.saif

Answer 4

Basically your download speed is the speed that you experience when using Internet, but bandwith is the maximum speed that you reach. Doesn't make sense? ok, that's fine there is an example below.

So, I just got my Internet connection from my preferred ISP (Internet service provider) and it says that I should reach 5mb/s but it doesn't! and I have two other computers and they use the same Internet connection. So this 5mb/s devides between three computers so your Internet speed is different across each device but your bandwith which is the sum of all speeds should equal to 5mb/s.

Hope that explains the difference between these two terms :)

Answer 5

Clock speed is the speed of your processor Bandwidth is the speed of your internet connection. JD Craig