Latency vs Bandwidth: Delay vs Capacity
Overview Latency and bandwidth both describe network performance, but they measure completely different things: latency is how long a single piece of data takes to travel from source to destination, while bandwidth is how much data can move through the connection per second. A link can have huge bandwidth and still feel laggy, or tiny bandwidth and still respond instantly — understanding which one is limiting you determines whether the fix is a faster link or a shorter path. ...