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What is Internet Bandwidth and Internet Throughput?

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Internet Bandwidth

The amount of data that can be carried from one point to another in a given time period. OR The limited set of frequencies allowed to pass through a given transmission channel.

Internet throughput

Is the average rate of successful message delivery over a communication channel. This data may be delivered over a physical or logical link, or pass through a certain network node. The throughput is usually measured in bits per second (bit/s or bps), and sometimes in data packets per second or data packets per time slot.