What’s the difference between Bandwidth, Data Transfer Rate, Latency, and Throughput and what’s their job for internet speed?

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What’s the difference between Bandwidth, Data Transfer Rate, Latency, and Throughput and what’s their job for internet speed?

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Answer 1

Take all of the above, and realize that an SUV loaded with hard drives driving cross country has an amazingly high bandwidth, just extremely bad latency.

That’s modernizing a very old joke, “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.”