@Sohan, In your earlier example, some factors were varying. I would like you to give an explanation, keeping all factors constant i.e - Lenght of cable is same, - Identical physical x-tics of the tramission media, and - a similar data size being transmitted across expect of course for the link capacities which will be a comparison for 1Mbps and a 10Mbps link. Would the same explanation suffice? On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:59 PM, rsohan@gmail.com <rsohan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Stephen Munguti <kamitu.sm@gmail.com>wrote:
Throughput of a network (Which i presume is what you are referring to as speed) depends on
Your presumption is erroneous. When I mentioned speed I was explicitly clear to mention it is the speed of propagation of light and not the maximum attainable bandwidth of the network.
latency, the application (e.g TCP/IP window sizes) and bandwidth (Maximum packets one can send across a link under ideal conditions)
Which is why you will notice I go to great pains to highlight the fact that I assume otherwise "identical" networks. This serves to encompass and abstract away everything else apart from the parameters in question (link BW and length)
The concepts form a lengthy explanation, but you cannot separate throughput and latency
Which was my exact point two emails back. So either the point of this email was to agree with me or I have misunderstood. Given your initial sentences I don't think it was the former. Please elucidate further.
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