Difference Between Speed vs Bandwidth.....The Age Old Question

Bandwidth vs Speed Bandwidth is a very old term that predates the advent of computers and all other digital technologies. It is widely used in analog technologies like radio transmission, acoustics, and many others. In computing, bandwidth is often used to indicate the amount of data that is being, or can be, transferred at a given time. This is often measured in bits per second with common values expressed in thousands (kilobits per...

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1Gbps, fiber-to-the-home service… for $69.99 a month.

Installing aerial fiber optic lines for the Sonic.net trial project American ISPs have convinced us that Internet access is expensive—getting speeds of 100Mbps will set most people back by more than $100 a month, assuming the service is even available. Where I live in Chicago, Comcast's 105Mbps service goes for a whopping $199.95 ("premium installation" and cable modem not included). Which is why it was so refreshing to see the scrappy...

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Internet Archive starts backing up digital books on paper

Modified shipping containers used by the Internet Archive If you want real long-term backups of digitized ebooks, then look no further than dead tree. At least, that's the consensus of the Internet Archive project, which has announced an incredibly ambitious plan to store one physical copy of every published book in the world. "Internet Archive is building a physical archive for the long term preservation of one copy of every...

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