What is bandwidth?

[chris34]

Bandwidth is most familiar to consumers because of its use by hosting companies or internet service providers. The sense in which bandwidth is used by most web hosting companies, that is, as a measure of total data transferred in a month, is not strictly correct. This measurement is more rightly referred to as data transfer, but the use of bandwidth by hosting companies is so pervasive that it has become accepted by the general public.

Many hosting providers place caps on the amount of bandwidth a site can transfer in a given period of time, usually a month, but sometimes twenty-four hours or a week. If the site exceeds its bandwidth allotment, the service is usually either suspended or else additional bandwidth is billed separately, often at a much higher cost than the base cost included with the hosting plan.

Some hosts offer so-called unlimited bandwidth plans, which in theory have an unlimited amount of data transfer per month. Usually the actual bandwidth, that is the per-second transfer of a connection, is somewhat limited on these services, ensuring data transfer for the site never becomes too large. If the bandwidth limit is met, speeds for users may be throttled down substantially, or service may even be interrupted.

[ElaineMorris]

Bandwidth is one that may be able to carry enough information. In the term of Web Hosting Bandwidth is data transferred rate to and from a web hosting account.

[rahul123]

thanks for ur review, i was also confuse with bandwidth term, but not more now )

[perry15]

Hello Friends.......

The total range of frequency required to pass a specific modulated signal without distortion or loss of data. The ideal bandwidth allows the signal to pass under conditions of maximum AM or FM adjustment.

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[janita]

Bandwidth is the number of data transferred from web host.

[sjohn]

In computer networks, bandwidth is often used as a synonym for data transfer rate the amount of data that can be carried from one point to another in a given time period.Bandwidth is easy to understand if we use an analogy from everyday life. Imagine that instead of trying to get a Web page or file from your ISP through wires, you're trying to drain a swimming pool.