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Can you explain the difference? They seem to me like virtually the same concept, but you seem to see an important distinction.
by jbay808 5y ago
Can you explain the difference? They seem to me like virtually the same concept, but you seem to see an important distinction.
- p1esk 5y agoChannel capacity is an ideal theoretical concept establishing a maximum data transmission rate over a channel with strong assumptions about the noise in that channel. Throughput is what you actually get in the real world, and it depends on many things, including a modulation scheme, retransmission protocols, specific noise models, etc.
- jbay808 5y agoFair enough. But in review, they were indeed talking about the capacity: > Or using the word "bandwidth" to refer to "capacity"[...]