[AMPS] Bandwidth

[John Fielding]

Right on - see how the internet slowed almost to a halt on the day the
Scarr report was put on the web!!!

John	ZS5JF

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> From: Jon Ogden <jono@enteract.com>
> To: Peter Chadwick <Peter_Chadwick@mitel.com>; 'amps'
<amps@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [AMPS] Bandwidth
> Date: 27 January 1999 06:10
> 
> 
> >What's this 'bandwidth' term all the computer freaks keep using?
> >Bandwidth is the frequency band between the 3dB points of a tuned
circuit,
> >or between the passband edge attenuations of a filter, or the
'Occupied' or
> >'Necessary' bandwidths of a transmission, as per ITU. But a
reflector?
> >
> >This is an RF reflector; mayhap I'm picky about technical terms, but
I hate
> >to see them totally misused. Especially here, where bandwidth has
specific
> >meanings when applied to amplifiers - the raison d'etre of this
reflector.
> 
> IMO, bandwidth in terms of computer stuff is related to how much 
> information can be carried by the internet.  Contrary to popular
opinion, 
> the internet cannot support infinite amounts of data and traffic.  
> Therefore, it has a limited "bandwidth."  As such, each packet of 
> information takes up a certain amount of the total "bandwidth"
available. 
>  So sending a large amount of information can potentially cause more 
> internet traffic and headaches than necessary.
> 
> I assume "bandwidth" could also stand for volume of information as
more 
> of a figure of speech than a literal term.
> 
> Either way, it was probably coined by some bit head somewhere who
wanted 
> to be like the amp builder who built 100KW amps.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Jon
> KE9NA
>  
> 
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