What is Bandwidth?
What is a Bandwidth?
Simply put, bandwidth is the carrying capacity of a network. It's rather like a highway. Three lane highways can carry more traffic than two lane highways. However, neither can carry an infinite amount of traffic. At a certain level, even a six lane highway can become saturated. Bandwidth is finite.
Speed and performance on a network (or highway) is inversely proportional to the amount of traffic carried - that is: more traffic, slower speeds. Performance is based on volume of traffic.
Like a highway, a data network is shared by all the users who have access to it. In other words, there are no reserved or express lanes. The more bandwidth any one individual uses, the less there is available for the rest of the user population. Bandwidth is shared.
