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How is Bandwidth different from Transfer?

April 26, 2017bandwidth different transfer

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How is Bandwidth different from Transfer?

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Bandwidth and transfer are often mistaken. Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be transmitted for a period of time, whereas transfer is how much data is being transmitted (e.g. the data transfer is 100MB and the bandwidth is 1MB per second, so 100MB are transmitted for 100 seconds.