hello everyone have you ever thought about the speed of your internet connection well chances are yes you have because when you were shopping for high-speed broadband internet for your home or business one of the first things you thought about was speed such as upload and download speeds and as you were shopping you may have seen internet service providers advertising broadband internet speeds of 100 megabits per second 500 megabits per second or 1,000 megabits per second well these speeds that are advertised are technically not the speed at which data travels over a network but it's actually a measurement of the maximum amount of data that's transferred over a network and this is what's known as bandwidth bandwidth is measured in bits per second or BPS in other words it's a measurement of how much data is transferred over a network in 1 second so for example if you have a 100 megabit internet service connection then that means that a maximum of 100 megabits of data can be transferred in 1 second or if you have a 500 megabit connection then that means that a maximum of 500 megabits of data can be transferred in 1 second so even though the 100 and 500 megabit connection transmit data at the same speed the 500 megabit connection will seem like it's faster because it can transfer five times times more data in 1 second than the 100 megabit connection so this is why internet service providers advertise their internet connections as speeds so as an analogy we can use an illustration of water flowing through a pipe and depending upon the diameter of the pipe it will directly affect how much water can flow through it so the smaller diameter pipe will represent a lower bandwidth connection and the larger diameter pipe will represent a higher bandwidth connection so as you can see the flow of water is traveling at the same rate in both pipes but since the bottom pipe is wider than the top one it's able to flow a lot more water at the same time more than a smaller pipe which 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also get 20% off an annual premium subscription so this works just like an internet connection if both both of these connections were to download a video from the internet that's 4 GB in size the 500 megabit connection can download the video to your computer a lot faster so in theory the 100 megabit connection would take about 5 1 12 minutes to download a 4 GB video while the 500 megabit connection would only take a little over a minute or if some of you were old enough to remember this if you were us if you were using an AOL dialup connection back in the 1990s using a whopping 56k BPS connection using your phone line it would take you about a week to download a 4 gigabyte video now this is providing that AOL doesn't randomly kick you off your connection and no one in your home wants to use your phone because this will cause you to disconnect and then you'll have to reconnect and you'll have to restart the download all over again from scratch so again these calculations are just on paper because in the real world there's internet traffic lag and equipment that would affect the actual time it takes to download but needless to say the more bandwidth you have the faster and smoother your internet experience will be but also the higher the bandwidth the higher price you'll have to pay your internet service provider now keep in mind bandwidth is measured in both download and upload speeds but when isps are advertising their internet speeds such as 100 or 500 megabits per second they are referring to the download speed and typically the upload speed would be only a fraction of the download speed so for example if an ISP is advertising a download speed of 100 megabits per second the upload speed may be around 10 megabits per second now the reason for this is because the download speed is what's most important when regular consumers are doing normal things such as browsing websites watching videos writing emails and so on so having a high upload speed is not really important but if the consumer is running a business and they are uploading large files on a regular basis or if they are a live streamer for example on YouTube well then having a faster upload speed would be needed so guys I want to thank you for watching this video on bandwidth Please Subscribe and I will see you in the next video