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Remember Me   Broadband? Bandwidth? What Does It All Mean!
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013 by | Filed Under: Using The Internet
Cel Mengata from St Paul, Minnesota writes:    There is a term
called technobabble, which is when industries use language and
words that are common knowledge in that industry but to the rest
of the world make little or no sense. I’ve yet to figure out why
Internet service providers still insist on referring to terms
like bandwidth, broadband, symmetric/asymmetric, and latency
without making sure to explain what they mean and why they
matter. I’ll go over each term and what they mean to you as a
subscriber.  Bandwidth: This is the measurement of the data that
can transfer from or to your computer per second. It is measured
in kilobits per second (kbits) or megabits per second (mbit).
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