Bandwidth is one technical term that you use many times a day irrespective of the fact that weather you understand its meaning or not, weather you are a tech savvy personality or not, but if you are an internet user, you will surely end up using this word several times a day.
Now bandwidth refers to the rate of data that can be transferred... This rate is normally in seconds, so the more bandwidth you sign up for; the more data can be transferred to you….
What will happen if you have low bandwidth? Well, low bandwidth would mean that your websites will load slower; the download would be much slower... If you are hosting a website, the users connecting to your website would face difficulty accessing the data and some might need to wait to access the website once the bandwidth is completely in usage. Now, with higher bandwidth, it means that data transfer rate would be much higher, for example if we compare bandwidth with a pipe of water so, the bigger the diameter of the pipe is, faster the water travels. Same is the case with bandwidth... the higher the bandwidth, the rate of data transfer would be higher which means more users can connect and more data bits available for everyone.
Now, bandwidth does not come cheap and you wouldn’t want to waste your precious bandwidth, so optimal usage of your bandwidth is necessary in order to provide more and comfortable data transfer to the users. Let us say that you are hosting a mobile review and comparison website. You are using some flash graphics to show comparison of two mobiles. Asking a user to compare mobile phones on flash would mean that you need higher data transfer rate in order for the user to comfortably view the comparison, which in return means that you will be wasting a whole lot of bandwidth just for those heavy non optimal graphics which will in the end waste your precious bandwidth and give users a very slow experience of your website.
Remember, bandwidth does not mean the amount of data that you have downloaded; it refers to that rate of data going from say A’s computer to B’s computer. The maximum rate of data transfer allowed would be your bandwidth.
Now bandwidth refers to the rate of data that can be transferred... This rate is normally in seconds, so the more bandwidth you sign up for; the more data can be transferred to you….
What will happen if you have low bandwidth? Well, low bandwidth would mean that your websites will load slower; the download would be much slower... If you are hosting a website, the users connecting to your website would face difficulty accessing the data and some might need to wait to access the website once the bandwidth is completely in usage. Now, with higher bandwidth, it means that data transfer rate would be much higher, for example if we compare bandwidth with a pipe of water so, the bigger the diameter of the pipe is, faster the water travels. Same is the case with bandwidth... the higher the bandwidth, the rate of data transfer would be higher which means more users can connect and more data bits available for everyone.
Now, bandwidth does not come cheap and you wouldn’t want to waste your precious bandwidth, so optimal usage of your bandwidth is necessary in order to provide more and comfortable data transfer to the users. Let us say that you are hosting a mobile review and comparison website. You are using some flash graphics to show comparison of two mobiles. Asking a user to compare mobile phones on flash would mean that you need higher data transfer rate in order for the user to comfortably view the comparison, which in return means that you will be wasting a whole lot of bandwidth just for those heavy non optimal graphics which will in the end waste your precious bandwidth and give users a very slow experience of your website.
Remember, bandwidth does not mean the amount of data that you have downloaded; it refers to that rate of data going from say A’s computer to B’s computer. The maximum rate of data transfer allowed would be your bandwidth.
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