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Re: in the centrum of the payla



Actually, Asher is right. Bandwidth and latency are two very distinct
quantities, which are not related. Academically, I can create a 2Gb/s
line with a latency of half an hour. It is true that both measures have
their impact on the total "experience" of a network user, but they are
technically unrelated.

Latency being extended on a loaded line is a phenomenon of queueing.
The equipment on the ends of a link usually queues data before transmission.
A packet may stay in the queue when the line is loaded. This may extend
the latency you see. However this does not have anything to do with the
actualy bandwidth - only with the bandwidth *utilization*, and in any case,
has nothing to do with the link itself.

Doron Shikmoni