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To: E who wrote (29810)	10/31/2002 12:40:53 PM
From: Esteban	of 110653

What is the difference between "bandwidth" and "connection speed"? There is a difference, but maybe not in the context of the web site where you saw the two terms. Bandwidth measures the amount of data that is transferred in a certain time. So it measures both speed and volume of information transferred. Speed only can be thought of as how long it takes to transfer the smallest amount data. This is what you see as the result of a ping command, in milliseconds. The lower the ms, the faster the speed. It's like water pipes of different diameter. The water inside either diameter pipe can move at the same speed, but the larger diameter one will deliver more water in the same time. Because my ISDN connection is digital, it is fast, giving ping times in the same range as dsl. The bandwidth, however, is much less. I can download much less data at this speed in a fixed amount of time than I could with dsl. An analog phone connection is both slower and has lower bandwidth than my ISDN. Ping times are generally 3-4 times slower than digital in my area. But then we are dealing in miliseconds so any any case the speed is fast. There. I've exhausted my entire understanding of the concepts. Esteban

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