What is Bandwidth What is bandwidth?
And why should I care? Credit for this page to Caliban Tiresias Darklock. Bandwidth is a technical term for a technical subject. The origin of the word is based in radio technology, and is far too technical to go into here. In fact, the original meaning has next to nothing to do with bandwidth on the internet. It might be best to take a few classes in electronic theory or physics to learn the matter in detail. The idea of bandwidth, however, is simple. Every machine on the internet is connected by a cable (usually; there are other ways to connect computers, but cables are the most common, and all connections have and use bandwidth in the same way). This cable has a capacity; it can carry a certain amount of information, sort of like a water pipe carries water. At either end of this cable, there is some sort of computer which can send or receive data at a certain speed. The slowest of these three capacities is the bandwidth of the line; it’s the fastest you can communicate between the e
