Comment on What was the internet like before Y2K happened ?
josephc@lemmy.ml 5 days agoIf I send you a 24TB hard drive in the mail and it takes three days to arrive, thats high bandwidth, high latency.
If I send you a 24 character morse code message over the radio it’s low latency and low bandwidth.
davidagain@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Conclusion:
bandwith = maximum volume per second, like width of a water pipe
latency = delay in arrival, how many milliseconds the data takes to make the journey, like how slow or long a pipe is.