7.2 Internet: Basic Concepts and Terminology Curriculum Page
1. What is bandwidth? What do you think affects the differences in bandwidth globally as well as in different locations in the U.S.?
Answer
Bandwidth is the download and upload rate and connectivity to a network. There are many factors affecting bandwidth like how many people are on the network or how many tasks are being performed which slows it down.
2. What is latency? How does it differ from bandwidth? Why is it a useful measure?
Answer
Latency is the time for information to reach one point to the next in a network. It is useful to measure latency because it determines the efficiency of the network and determines internet speed.
3. What is the digital divide? What are some ways to reduce the effects of the digital divide?
Answer
The digital divide is a divide between devices that have internet connectivity and those who do not. A way to reduce this divide to have not affordable devices with internet connectivity and start to implement it to more things.