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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates
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To: BDR who wrote (30388)8/24/2000 12:05:53 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh  Read Replies (1) of 54805
 
For surfing, the buffering is very temporary and not substantial. Big images and such might be buffered transiently on a server in the connection, but large downloads are typically an interactive exchange between your end and the source server so that if you are taking the data slowly, you are also asking for it slowly.

With e-mail, the buffering can be significant if the account is dial-in since it has to live on the server until you connect. I doubt this very often pushes out into the NAS and SAN categories, however.

Most of the bandwidth contrast is explained by the highway analogy. Turn it upside down and think of a 100 people all asking for data at an average of 10Kb/s (since they spend part of the time reading etc.). That takes a pipe of at least 1000Kb/s or 1Mb/s to feed that local ISP. Then there are 100 ISPs all connected to the same backbone so that takes 100Mb/s. And so on.
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