Government wants every Dutchman to have access to gigabit internet by 2030 – IT Pro – News

Think of it like a highway. If you make the road twice as wide, twice as many cars can fit. The number of people switching per second can double. But suppose now they are all driving to the same city. Before the highway was widened, it was about an hour’s drive. But after the highway was widened… it was still one o’clock. Despite the fact that now twice as many people can go to the city at the same time, it still takes a long time. And if your provider built a bad road, it could take up to 2 hours to get there.

This is how bandwidth works. With a gigabit line you can upload or send more data at the same time than with 100 Mbit. But it doesn’t come any faster.

What is possible is that if everyone in the house is downloading and/or uploading everything, there will be a bigger lag. It’s like everyone is trying to get to Poland from your house from the same highway interchange. The driveway fills up and there’s a traffic jam. The highway itself (internet) is still pretty empty, but then it slows down into your driveway. If you widen the driveway / increase your Internet speed, everything will be easier on the highway / on the Internet. Only if there’s more traffic after that (your roommates start downloading even more at the same time), then things won’t get any better. This is called congestion both in the Internet and in traffic.

When we talk about networks and the internet we use terms that are very busy such as the word traffic itself, but also addresses or congestion. It’s not at all. There are many comparisons. So it may be that higher upload speed means lower latency, but in principle this is more due to congestion than bandwidth itself.

[Reactie gewijzigd door Amanoo op 18 november 2022 21:25]