Understanding the requirement of Bandwidth
                     Understanding the requirement of Bandwidth
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We generally hear a lot about bandwidths and data transfers while choosing 
the hosting service for our websites. Even if we are not website owners, 
sometimes we face trouble with our home internet service providers in terms 
of connection speed while downloading or uploading files. 
Technically speaking bandwidth is defined as the range of frequency, through 
which the data can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. In the business 
perspective, it describes the ability to handle certain amount of traffic and 
quantity of data that can be transferred through a network connection between 
the website and internet user. It can be confusing to decide on the amount of 
bandwidth required if we are dealing with it for the first time, but remember if 
our website is under-performing below expectations then it is time to rethink 
about our hosting plan.
How to decide on the bandwidth requirement?
Well, there are no specific statistics on how much bandwidth should be 
allocated for a website but broadly speaking, if it has limited number of 
visitors per month then there is nothing to worry too much about the network 
bandwidth and you can go for any basic to medium hosting plans.
 On the other hand, if the website is having heavy traffic with audio & video 
files, images, and other online applications included, then there is always a 
need to upgrade the existing plan to higher bandwidths to give faster and 
better user browsing experience. Remember, the higher the bandwidth, the 
faster will be the speed & performance, and more traffic it can accommodate 
to visit the site.
Upstream & downstream data
There are many things that users would do other than browsing when they are 
on the internet – emails, chats, messaging, file sharing etc. In most of these 
cases, either they will be downloading the information to their personal PCs 
or uploading the data from the device to the internet. Most of the internet 
service providers specifically mention upstream & downstream bandwidths to 
make it clear to their users about the limitation in data transfers. 
In fact, many of them offer high downstream bandwidths compared to its 
counterpart because that is what most of the internet users also prefer. 
Conversely, it is the upstream bandwidth that really matters when sending of 
data is critical, especially for businesses that deal with lot of file uploads in 
their web server applications.
Factors that affect the bandwidth
Multiple devices on a single connection
The bandwidth gets distributed as the number of devices increase which 
means when multiple users are using the same connection, only a limited 
bandwidth gets allocated to each device. In such cases, the rate at which data 
gets transferred will be very slow and requires an upgrade for higher hosting 
plans for faster response. When using wireless routers, each protocol will be 
assigned with specific bandwidth and the users connecting to those protocols 
will have limitation on the usage.
Other system processes
Apart from the internet, there are other processes that are mandatory to keep 
our system running perfectly without any problem. Most often we notice our 
systems running very slow while executing automatic OS updates and 
antivirus security checks. This is because uploads and downloads that happen 
during these processes consume the existing internet bandwidth and make the 
system little bit slower than its original speed.
Number of internet tasks
This is almost same as running multiple users on a single connection. As the 
number of internet based processes increases, which means if there are more 
than five tasks running simultaneously, then the bandwidth gets distributed 
and each one runs at a slower speed. The downstream and upstream data 
reach their maximum available limit, and processes hardly respond to our 
instructions when given. Hence to increase the speed and make the efficient 
use of maximum available bandwidth, perform the tasks one at a time instead 
of running them simultaneously.
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