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What is the term Bandwidth?
« on: April 05, 2010, 03:00:04 AM »
Bandwidth is a term used to describe how much information can be transmitted over a connection. Bandwidth is usually given as bits per second, or as some larger denomination of bits, such as Megabits per second, expressed as kbit/s or Mbit/s. Bandwidth is a gross measurement, taking the total amount of data transferred in a given period of time as a rate, without taking into consideration the quality of the signal itself.

Throughput can be looked at as a subset of bandwidth that takes into account whether data was successfully transmitted or not. While the bandwidth of a connection might be quite high, if the signal loss is also high, then the throughput of the connection will remain somewhat low. Conversely, even a relatively low-bandwidth connection can have a moderately high throughput if the signal quality is also high.

Bandwidth is most familiar to consumers because of its use by hosting companies or internet service providers. The sense in which bandwidth is used by most web hosting companies, that is, as a measure of total data transferred in a month, is not strictly correct. This measurement is more rightly referred to as data transfer, but the use of bandwidth by hosting companies is so pervasive that it has become accepted by the general public.

Many hosting providers place caps on the amount of bandwidth a site can transfer in a given period of time, usually a month, but sometimes twenty-four hours or a week. If the site exceeds its bandwidth allotment, the service is usually either suspended or else additional bandwidth is billed separately, often at a much higher cost than the base cost included with the hosting plan.

Some hosts offer so-called unlimited bandwidth plans, which in theory have an unlimited amount of data transfer per month. Usually the actual bandwidth, that is the per-second transfer of a connection, is somewhat limited on these services, ensuring data transfer for the site never becomes too large. If the bandwidth limit is met, speeds for users may be throttled down substantially, or service may even be interrupted.

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What is the term Bandwidth?
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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2010, 07:23:45 AM »
thank you marsh

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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2010, 01:25:11 AM »
It’s a very good explanation. But if you are planning to buy a hosting package with unlimited bandwidth its time to double think because nothing is unlimited.

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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2010, 02:17:51 AM »
In Internet an Wireless,Bandwidth describes how quickly you can transfer data (or rather, how much data you can transfer in a given period of time).
Also, Bandwidth is measured in Hertz (or kHz, MHz, GHz). If the figure is given in bits/s or a multiple thereof the looser sense is being used.  :smilie:

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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2010, 06:09:53 AM »
Thanks for sharing. It’s a very good explanation. But if you are planning to buy a hosting package with unlimited bandwidth its time to double think because nothing is unlimited.






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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2010, 10:40:37 PM »
In computer networks, bandwidth is often used as a synonym for data transfer rate - the amount of data that can be carried from one point to another in a given time period (usually a second).

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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2010, 07:39:03 AM »
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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2011, 04:58:09 PM »
@Marsh thanks for information, the only thing about bandwidth that I know is amount of data send in certain period of time. But you explained it how industries deal with it.

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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2011, 08:39:13 AM »
In computer networking and computer science, bandwidth, network bandwidth, data bandwidth or digital bandwidth is a bit rate measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bits/second or multiples of it

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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2011, 11:17:57 AM »
thank you for sharp. It’s a very good explaination

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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2011, 06:42:34 AM »
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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2011, 04:41:45 AM »
I was really confused about the bandwidth thanks for clearifying

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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #12 on: May 04, 2011, 02:37:00 PM »
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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #13 on: May 16, 2011, 04:27:29 AM »
In computer networking and computer science, bandwidth, network bandwidth, data bandwidth or digital bandwidth is a bit rate measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bits/second or multiples of it

Correctly Said, Also, Bandwidth is used in communication technology, now communication relates with data transfer which is usually transferred in bits(0,1)(called as digital transfer). Communication takes place between devices such as in networking. Bandwidth has now come in effect with many hosting providers as they use networking devices which uses 0's and 1's so as to transfer data.

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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #14 on: May 16, 2011, 07:42:15 AM »
You should know how much space your website would need and approximate data it will generate. When we talk about disk space, well, it's actually the amount of storage assigned to you by the web hosting provider. The bandwidth is the amount of traffic that is allowed to access and leave your website. In case your website has a lot of graphics then you would require higher storage area and greater bandwidth.
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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #15 on: May 25, 2011, 03:45:58 PM »
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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #16 on: September 13, 2011, 02:56:49 AM »
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Re: What is the term Bandwidth?
« Reply #17 on: September 14, 2011, 12:38:10 AM »
Bandwidth is a measure of the amount of data passing through a network at a given time.
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