Any difference?

[Mike]

Is there any difference between bandwidth and download/upload speed?

[JenniP]

Kind of, the terms are for most people interchangable, however upload/download speed tends to measure how fast a line is capable of transmitting.

IE

My line with transfer 8MBit down and 256KBit up.

Thats a measurement of speed

Bandwidth on the other hand tends to be a measurement of data transferred over time.

IE Last month I used 35GB of bandwidth

Which means last month I uploaded/downloaded 35GB of data.

Jen

[attagirl]

The difference is speed refers to just that, how fast a file transfers from one point to another. While bandthwidth is the amount of data that flows from one point to another.

[ricecook]

Their is lot of difference between the two as the first difference is of the speed offered by the broadband connection and second one is the connectivity.