Is it Bandwidth or Data Transfer ?

[compibot]

Hi guys,

Isn't what we call bandwidth in DA really not bandwidth , more like Data Transfer ?

 

[floyd]

That is correct. But most users associate the word bandwidth with the amount of data transfered when technically you are correct bandwidth is the speed at which data is transfered.

 

[nobaloney]

To clarify a bit more: bandwidth is the size of the pipe and is generally measured in bps, kbps, or mbps.

Data transfer is the amount of water/date you've sent through the pipe in a month, and is generally measured in kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes.

A T-1 line runs at 1.54 mbps, and can generally move approximately 500 Gigagytes of data in a one-month (30 day) period running at full speed.

Jeff