Talk:Bandwidth

The definition of bandwidth

Bandwidth is difference between the upper and lower frequency, which the frequency transmit only in certain time interval and also transmit the data without any interference and distortion — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.165.52.161 (talk) 06:27, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 8 November 2018

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The result of the move request was: Withdrawn. As pointed out in the discussion, given that Bandwidth (computing) has about the same number of page views, I think my proposal was unlikely to succeed. I might argue that the computing term is a misnomer, since the computing concept has nothing to do with the width of a band, but the term does seem to have become accepted language. —BarrelProof (talk) 22:07, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

– WP:PRIMARYTOPIC: The term "bandwidth" refers to the width of a range (a "band") of frequencies – e.g., the range of frequencies used by a communication signal such as a radio signal. As the lead section of the article on that topic says, bandwidth is a central concept in many fields. The other meanings are merely particular special cases of that meaning or derived informal uses of the term – e.g., using the term as the name of a company or the name of a radio program, or bending its meaning to refer to the amount of data flowing in a system rather than the width of the frequency range used in a system (or bending it further to refer to any resource usage as "bandwidth"). Some of the uses are basically colloquial misnomers. I suggest that the actual proper meaning of the term should be considered primary. —BarrelProof (talk) 18:55, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. The subjects at the articles Bandwidth (signal processing) and Bandwidth (computing) are as primary as each other. In fact, one could argue that Bandwidth (computing) is starting to become more well-known than Bandwidth (signal processing), but probably not just yet. Steel1943 (talk) 21:53, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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