The difference between latency and speed of an internet service provided by ISPs?
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Bandwidth (speed) is how wide the road is that is giving you data. With a 1 lane road you can only get one truck full of data at a time, but with a 8 lane road you could get 8 trucks of data at once.
Latency is how long it takes for the truck to get to you from when it is dispatched, basically how fast it is driving.
If you are playing a video game, it doesn’t take much data actually, so the 1 lane road might be fine. But it is important that the data gets to you quick. Otherwise there is a delay between when you click a button and your character shoots or jumps. So you want that truck to be more like a Ferrari than a Kenworth.
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