IT lexicon Networking Bandwidth

Bandwidth

Networking På svenska → Updated: 2026-05-23

How much data per second passes through a network link. Measured in Mbps or Gbps.

Not the same as latency: bandwidth is "how wide the pipe is" (how much at once), latency is "how long the pipe is" (how fast a single byte gets across).

A 100 Mbps connection can theoretically push 12 MB/sec. In practice: subtract overhead, TCP windowing, and competing traffic.

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