– 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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The amount of bandwidth is determined by the medium used and the hardware the generates and reads signals. The medium can be copper cables, fiber cables, or radio signals sent through the air. Fiber cables have the most bandwidth.
The hardware that makes and reads the signals are also important. New hardware can increase the amount of bandiwdth a medium is capable of. This is very useful so you don’t need to replace all your cables, just the hardware on either end.
There’s also other ways to send data. There’s a joke protocol for sending data over carrier peigons. It was actually used as a joke too. The amount of bandwidth is determined by how much weight the carrier pigeon can hold.
You can also take a bunch of hard drives and put them in a vechicle and drive them somewhere. The bandwidth there is how much data the hard drives can hold and how many hard drives the vehicle can hold. This is a real way to transfer giant amounts of data that would take too long over the Internet.
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