WTF exactly is bandwith

[Haus]

what is it exactly. i know sites have a certain amount of bandwith. where does it come from and why do you need it :dunno

 

[Sim]

Does this help? lol I could sit here and type out an explanation...but I can barely even think stra...oooooh...butterflies...

bandwidth

n. 1. [common] Used by hackers (in a generalization
of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time
that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle. "Those
are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough
bandwidth, I guess." Compare low-bandwidth. This generalized
usage began to go mainstream after the Internet population explosion
of 1993-1994. 2. Attention span. 3. On Usenet, a measure of
network capacity that is often wasted by people complaining about
how items posted by others are a waste of bandwidth.

 

[lemon]

bandwith:

[noun] - a measurement of data capacity per time unit

( just like sim said )

but without providing any examples:

your download speed may be 3mbits per second. thats how much bandwith you have. your company charges you so much per month. and thats what you get per month

i think that, in the 3mbits / sec example, it is the instantaneous or instant bandwith. most of the time, when someone mentions bandwith, like for offtopicz.net, it would be like 100gigabytes per month. thats how much data the server that holds offtopicz.net can send/receive.

and all that good stuff.

 

[hhayes]

cool i didn't know that either :dunno

 

[Tim]

For a more detailed explanation go here.

In a digital communication system, bandwidth has a dual meaning. In the technical sense, it is a synonym for baud rate, the rate at which symbols may be transmitted through the system. It is also used in the colloquial sense to describe channel capacity, the rate at which bits may be transmitted through the system. Hence, a 66 MHz digital data bus with 32 separate data lines may properly be said to have a bandwidth of 66 MHz and a capacity of 2.1 Gbit/s — but it would not be surprising to hear such a bus described as having a "bandwidth of 2.1 Gbit/s." Similar confusion exists for analog modems, where each symbol carries multiple bits of information so that a modem may transmit 56 kbit/s of information over a phone line with a bandwidth of only 12 kHz.

In discrete time systems and digital signal processing, bandwidth is related to sampling rate according to the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem.

Bandwidth is also used in the sense of commodity, referring to something limited or something costing money. Thus, communication costs bandwidth, and improper use of someone else's bandwidth may be called bandwidth theft.

Also check out Throughput

 

[lemon]

tim, we dont need a geek's definition lol :booze

 

[Tim]

Re: RE: WTF exactly is bandwith

tim, we dont need a geek's definition lol :booze

Not needed... but very descriptive and complete...

Sorry, I will dumb it down for yall :tard

Bandwidth = Number of tromboners wide at front...



Example: The following pic shows a Bandwidth of 4

 

[lemon]

hahaha...

 

[mdvaldosta]

From an internet users perspective, it's usually referring to the speed at which you can download and upload files.

From a website / server perspective (which is what your asking for), it's usually measured as the amount of file transfers people have used. For example, if you have a 10 meg file that gets 2 downloads... you've used 20 megs of bandwidth. When people purchase hosting, their usually alotted a certain amount of bandwidth... say 10 gigs for example. If you use more (like a cell phone) you get overrage charges.

A low traffic website with just some basic html and a few pictures will only use a couple gigs at most. A high traffic website can use much more. Offtopicz uses around 50 gigs a month right now.

 

[ÀÁ®ÖN]

lol last year my computer teacher said to the calss dose any one no what bandwidth means. i put up my hand and said "its the download amount in Mega Bites provided by your isp" Eg: 10 000 Mb per month

she said "thats wrong, the correct answer is... Bandwidth is a term to describe the with of the cable"

consequently i got that answer marked wrong on our end of term test



personly i think her answer dosent make sence.