On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Henning Rogge <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Please use "throughput" rather than "bandwidth". The latter has > > a precise technical meaning. > > I agree... as soon as you meet someone specialized in radio > technology, Bandwidth will be something measured in Hertz. > I'm happy with that correction and will try to do likewise when I write other items. We have to get away from conflating "speed", with throughput or bandwidth, however: that is where we've gone wrong in the past. Speed is how "fast" something is for a user; for most applications, latency rather than throughput dominates performance in today's Internet. Unless all you care about is downloading your next episode of "Game of Thrones" ;-).... - Jim > > Henning Rogge > > > -- > We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered > long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to > set sail for the stars - Carl Sagan >
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