Bandwidth
noun
The amount of data that can be sent from one point to another in a network in a specific amount of time.
Your Internet speed is slow because your bandwidth is very low.
Often appears as...
- low bandwidth
- high bandwidth
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neutral
technical
noun
The range of frequencies within a given band, in particular that used for transmitting a signal.
The bandwidth of a signal in FM radio typically ranges from 30 Hz to 15 kHz.
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neutral
technical
noun
The mental capacity to handle or think about multiple information or tasks at the same time.
I just don't have the bandwidth to handle more projects at this time.
Often appears as...
- don't have the bandwidth
- increase bandwidth
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colloquial
noun
The amount of data that can be sent from one point to another in a network in a specific amount of time.
Your Internet speed is slow because your bandwidth is very low.
Often appears as...
- low bandwidth
- high bandwidth
Usage tips
neutral
technical
noun
The range of frequencies within a given band, in particular that used for transmitting a signal.
The bandwidth of a signal in FM radio typically ranges from 30 Hz to 15 kHz.
Usage tips
neutral
technical
noun
The mental capacity to handle or think about multiple information or tasks at the same time.
I just don't have the bandwidth to handle more projects at this time.
Often appears as...
- don't have the bandwidth
- increase bandwidth
Usage tips
neutral
colloquial
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Pro Tip 1/3Internet Speed
Think of bandwidth like the size of a pipe; bigger bandwidth means more data flows at once, like water in a pipe.
If you want to stream movies smoothly, you'll need a good-sized bandwidth.
Pro Tip 2/3Traffic Jam
Low bandwidth can cause delays, similar to traffic jams, slowing down your browsing experience.
Like a crowded highway, low bandwidth can make web pages load very slowly.
Pro Tip 3/3Too Many Devices
Using many devices at once can eat up your bandwidth, leading to slower connections on each device.
Our bandwidth can't handle five people streaming videos at the same time.
Pro Tip 1/3Internet Speed
Think of bandwidth like the size of a pipe; bigger bandwidth means more data flows at once, like water in a pipe.
If you want to stream movies smoothly, you'll need a good-sized bandwidth.
Pro Tip 2/3Traffic Jam
Low bandwidth can cause delays, similar to traffic jams, slowing down your browsing experience.
Like a crowded highway, low bandwidth can make web pages load very slowly.
Pro Tip 3/3Too Many Devices
Using many devices at once can eat up your bandwidth, leading to slower connections on each device.
Our bandwidth can't handle five people streaming videos at the same time.
Pro Tip 1/3Internet Speed
Think of bandwidth like the size of a pipe; bigger bandwidth means more data flows at once, like water in a pipe.
If you want to stream movies smoothly, you'll need a good-sized bandwidth.
Pro Tip 2/3Traffic Jam
Low bandwidth can cause delays, similar to traffic jams, slowing down your browsing experience.
Like a crowded highway, low bandwidth can make web pages load very slowly.
Pro Tip 3/3Too Many Devices
Using many devices at once can eat up your bandwidth, leading to slower connections on each device.
Our bandwidth can't handle five people streaming videos at the same time.
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Brewster Kahle: A...
So we've offered unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, forever, for free, to anybody that has something to share that belongs in a library. And we've been getting a lot of takers. One is the rock 'n' rollers. The rock 'n' rollers had a tradition of sharing, as long as nobody made any money. You could -- concert recordings, it's not the commercial recordings,
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A bold idea to replace...
So all of the technologies that we have advanced in the context of democracy, whether they are newspapers or whether it is social media, have tried to provide us with more communication. But we've been down that rabbit hole, and we know that's not what's going to solve the problem. Because it's not a communication problem, it's a cognitive bandwidth problem.
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How digital innovation...
by making sure the transcripts, the mind maps, and things like that are spread through the internet in real time, but we don't ever ask the elderly to, say, "Oh, you have to learn typing, otherwise you don't do democracy." It's not our style. But that requires broadband. Because if you don't have broadband, but only a very limited bandwidth,
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Chris Anderson: How...
world's talents to be shared digitally thereby launching a whole new cycle of crowd accelerated innovation the first few years of the web we're pretty much video free for this reason video files are huge the web couldn't handle them but in the last 10 years bandwidth has exploded a hundredfold suddenly here we
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Growing Africa’s digital...
that will change significantly and a coup and power train so our solution to the bandwidth problem is we need to build infrastructure within the country there's a lot of infrastructure that exists for us to talk to the rest of the world but we need to beautiful show that
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The beauty of data...
sights is the fastest it has the same bandwidth as a computer network then you have touch about the speed of a USB key and then you have hearing and smell which is the throughput of a hard disk and then you have poor old taste which is like rarely the throughput of a
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Deborah Gordon: What...
The anternet is coming. So data doesn't leave the source computer unless it gets a signal that there's enough bandwidth for it to travel on. In the early days of the Internet, when operating costs were really high and it was really important not to lose any data,
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Why Do Young People Get...
be innovative in their use of media they may adopt the latest technologies to help spread their message and mission also youth may have more time and bandwidth than older generations giving them a greater chance to take risks and
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The hidden network that...
our mobile work and play rely on legions of overworked computer servers, warehoused in gigantic data centers flung across the world. This is called cloud computing, and it leads to two big heat waste and bandwidth demand.
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On exploring the oceans...
western territorial trust the way we're going to run this we have no idea what we're going to discover we have no idea what we're going to discover going to discover it an ancient shipwreck of Phoenicians off Brazil or a new rock formation a new life so we're going to run it like an emergency hospital we're going to connect our command center via high bandwidth satellite link to a
Video examples
Brewster Kahle: A...
So we've offered unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, forever, for free, to anybody that has something to share that belongs in a library. And we've been getting a lot of takers. One is the rock 'n' rollers. The rock 'n' rollers had a tradition of sharing, as long as nobody made any money. You could -- concert recordings, it's not the commercial recordings,
Video examples
A bold idea to replace...
So all of the technologies that we have advanced in the context of democracy, whether they are newspapers or whether it is social media, have tried to provide us with more communication. But we've been down that rabbit hole, and we know that's not what's going to solve the problem. Because it's not a communication problem, it's a cognitive bandwidth problem.
Video examples
How digital innovation...
by making sure the transcripts, the mind maps, and things like that are spread through the internet in real time, but we don't ever ask the elderly to, say, "Oh, you have to learn typing, otherwise you don't do democracy." It's not our style. But that requires broadband. Because if you don't have broadband, but only a very limited bandwidth,
Video examples
Chris Anderson: How...
world's talents to be shared digitally thereby launching a whole new cycle of crowd accelerated innovation the first few years of the web we're pretty much video free for this reason video files are huge the web couldn't handle them but in the last 10 years bandwidth has exploded a hundredfold suddenly here we
Video examples
Growing Africa’s digital...
that will change significantly and a coup and power train so our solution to the bandwidth problem is we need to build infrastructure within the country there's a lot of infrastructure that exists for us to talk to the rest of the world but we need to beautiful show that
Video examples
The beauty of data...
sights is the fastest it has the same bandwidth as a computer network then you have touch about the speed of a USB key and then you have hearing and smell which is the throughput of a hard disk and then you have poor old taste which is like rarely the throughput of a
Video examples
Deborah Gordon: What...
The anternet is coming. So data doesn't leave the source computer unless it gets a signal that there's enough bandwidth for it to travel on. In the early days of the Internet, when operating costs were really high and it was really important not to lose any data,
Video examples
Why Do Young People Get...
be innovative in their use of media they may adopt the latest technologies to help spread their message and mission also youth may have more time and bandwidth than older generations giving them a greater chance to take risks and
Video examples
The hidden network that...
our mobile work and play rely on legions of overworked computer servers, warehoused in gigantic data centers flung across the world. This is called cloud computing, and it leads to two big heat waste and bandwidth demand.
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Andy Dunn
American Businessman
A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn't have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.
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Jonathan Zittrain
American Educator
TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.
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Kumar Mangalam Birla
Indian Businessman
The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.
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Shawn Fanning
American Businessman
He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.
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John Battelle
American Businessman
The smart phone isn't a perfect device, as we all know. It forces the world into a tiny screen. It runs out of battery, bandwidth, and power. It distracts us from the world around us.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.
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Dilip Shanghvi
Indian Businessman
The Ranbaxy acquisition doesn't preclude us from making more large acquisitions. The important issue is whether we have the management bandwidth to handle the acquisition.
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Daniel H. Wilson
American Author
For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.
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Patrick Whitesell
American Businessman
With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
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Jordan Peterson
Canadian Psychologist
The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.
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Andy Dunn
American Businessman
A protective self-narrative during conflict and duress sometimes obscures us from seeing the worst in ourselves. When the self-sustaining haze lifts after that conflict has subsided, we may recognize in ourselves the flaws the other saw in us at the time that we didn't have the emotional bandwidth to examine in the moment.
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Jonathan Zittrain
American Educator
TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.
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Kumar Mangalam Birla
Indian Businessman
The work environment is very important in determining how enjoyable work is. It is very important to work with smart guys who have a superior level of intellectual bandwidth and still have softer skills as well.
Quote examples
Shawn Fanning
American Businessman
He said this has the potential to be the first broadband killer application, and it has sort of become the truth because obviously it's so bandwidth intensive. I mean, it has been an issue.
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John Battelle
American Businessman
The smart phone isn't a perfect device, as we all know. It forces the world into a tiny screen. It runs out of battery, bandwidth, and power. It distracts us from the world around us.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.
Quote examples
Dilip Shanghvi
Indian Businessman
The Ranbaxy acquisition doesn't preclude us from making more large acquisitions. The important issue is whether we have the management bandwidth to handle the acquisition.
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Daniel H. Wilson
American Author
For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.
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Patrick Whitesell
American Businessman
With the world changing fast, we needed capital for investments. There's only so much bandwidth in your own balance sheet.
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Jordan Peterson
Canadian Psychologist
The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.
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