– Where does all the bandwidth on the internet come from? Is there a finite amount or do they just create more and how?

Question

– Where does all the bandwidth on the internet come from? Is there a finite amount or do they just create more and how?

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Answer 1

The internal components of a given electrical device can only charge and discharge so fast. That means that there is a maximum frequency within a signal they can receive before losing data from that signal. The width of the frequency band that a device can receive is it’s bandwidth. This means that only so much data can be packed into a given time slice. The higher the bandwidth, the more data per second can be sent.

This means that to create more “bandwidth”, you either need a faster device, or to have more devices operating in parallel.