– 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

When people talk about bandwidth of the entire internet, they generally mean something like “if everyone was using the internet at the same time, but not quite fast enough to slow it down because of congestion, how much total data would be flowing through the network”. This is different than the sum of each individual home internet connection speed, because it is accounting for all those individual connections sharing the same global infrastructure at the same time.

This global number can be increased, by adding more connections to homes, increasing the number of servers run by ISPs to route traffic, and increasing the speed on the individual links between those servers.