What is bandwidth with example?

A speed test can be run to see if an ISP is throttling bandwidth. Speed tests measure the speed between a device and a test server using a device’s internet connection. ISPs offer speed tests on their own websites, and independent tests are also available from services such as Speedtest.

Bandwidth describes the maximum data transfer rate of a network or Internet connection . It measures how much data can be sent over a specific connection in a given amount of time. For example, a gigabit Ethernet connection has a bandwidth of 1,000 Mbps (125 megabytes per second).

For example, 10 megabytes per second would be expressed as 10 MB/s or 10 MBps . One byte is eight bits. Thus, 10 MB/s = 80 Mb/s. The same metric prefixes can be used with bytes as with bits.