i cant find the difference between ping and bandwidth?

Question

i have googled so much but im not understanding.

If u have 1 megabit conecction and 5 seconds ping.

Does that mean u can send 1 megabit every 5 seconds.

Because ping is the time needed to send and recieve data. and ur data is 1 megabit. is that right.




if no tell me how

Answer 1

ping is a COMMAND that sends a packet to another computer, receives a reply for that packet and reports how much time it took to get the reply. This is called LATENCY and has nothing to do with bandwidth. It is just the time it takes for your computer to get a response from another networked device. High latency means that it takes a lot of time to get that response, low latency is that you get a response almost instantly. Latency (which some incorrectly call "ping") is usually expressed in milliseconds.



Bandwidth is the amount of data you can send within a certain time frame, usually expressed in Mbps (Megabit per second) or Gbps (Gigabit per second), but there are other speed indicators as well.

It gives you an indication of how fast you can download and/or upload data to and from a network (usually the internet, but also applies between two directly connected devices).



For online gaming for example, you don't really need high bandwidth, but you need low latency. If you're playing a first person shooter in a virtual world, you want to see other characters moving in real-time, so you want to responses between all the clients and the server to be as low as possible. If you have a high latency connection, characters will move around and you will only get the visualisation long after they've moved.... so if you want to shoot something or someone, you can never tell if the target is still in that place.

With a low latency connection, those changes are relayed to the clients almost immediately so you'll feel like you're in a real-time environment.



A satellite connection is an example of a high-bandwidth and high-latency. You can send large amounts of data in a short space of time, but the latency is high because the signal has to travel to space and back before it reaches the computer you're connecting to. It is good for downloading data, but not for online gaming (for which you need low-latency).

E.g. if you send a signal through a cable from your house to your neighbour's computer, you travel a few dozen meters. If you have a satellite connection, it travels 60000km up in space, and back down. Even at the speed of light, this takes a while and that is what's causing the latency.



Bandwidth and latency are just 2 properties of a stream of data and both properties do not influence each other necessarily. Both properties can affect your network experience in different ways as I've illustrated above.

In an ideal world though, you want really high bandwidth and really low latency. This means that you can send and receive a lot of data and you get immediate responses.



If you get 1mbps and 5s latency, you'll send 1Mbit in 1 second, but you'll only get the reply that it's been received 6 seconds later.

When you hit send, 1Mbit will be sent in 1 second, after (about) 2.5 seconds the receiving party will see the data come in and at 3.5 seconds he will have received the 1mbit of data. At 6s you will have the reply that your data has been successfully sent.

That is the basic idea anyways.

Answer 2

Ping is the time it takes to send a packet from your PC to a server and receive acknowledgement.



This is measured in milliseconds (ms, 1/1000 of a second). Normally, anything less than 100 is fine, anything more than 100 will introduce noticable lag in your games (you shooting at someone who isn't there anymore, but they were 0.1 seconds ago). The smaller the value, the better.



Bandwidth is the amount of data you can pull in and out, usually measured in mbps (megabits per second). I recommend people have at least 10 mbps per active user on a network (so if you are gaming at the same time your mom is netflixing at the same time your sister is youtubing, then you have three active network users and should have at least 30 mbps to make sure every user has enough bandwidth.



If you don't have enough bandwidth, you'll lag out, have long loading/buffer times, etc.



Does this help?



So your 1 mbps connection is pretty slow. And is that a 5 SECOND ping? or a 5 MILLISECOND ping? cause, a 5 second ping is horrible. Do you have satellite-based Internet or something? Takes a while to send a signal up into space and then come back down again.

Answer 3

They are two different things.

Bandwidth is the sum of your upload and download speeds measured in megabits per second ( Mbps ) , in your case 1 Mbps.

Ping is the time it takes to send a tiny package from your device to a server, or even your router, and receive a reply measured in milliseconds not seconds.

However, how your broadband speed is being handled might slow the ping test as there are in computer and line transmission devices such things to consider such as priorities and interrupts that are programmed in to give certain traffic a higher priority to give the customer a better service;

https://www.quora.com/How-does-ping-affect-bandwidth-And-how-does-bandwidth-affect-ping

So your bandwidth of 1 Mbps will remain the same, but the ping time in your case may be inaccurate and there isn`t much that you can do to change it anyway.

Regards, Bob UK.

Answer 4

ping is a command used to send a predefined data packet to a destination. The destination then returns a response. The TTL in the response depends on many factors such as distance and connection speed.



bandwidth is has a few meanings. For Electromagnetic Waves, like radio and TV you have a center transmission frequency, then lower and higher band limits. For Internet traffic it's the rate at which information can progress. Think of it like a water pipe, and network traffic as the water. Only, there is no actual pressure pushing the network traffic through (as in water pressure or voltage in a circuit).

Answer 5

That's two different measurement of a network connection, if this helps: pinging is about the quality of a connection while bandwidth is the quantity. And the two numbers you cited is more or less like dial up, maybe 3G cell data in congestion.

Answer 6

The last topic we want to discuss here is the concept of ping, or ping rate. Most operating systems, including Windows, contain a utility called “Ping” that can be accessed from the command prompt. Type “ping Google.com” (without the quotes) and the utility will return something like the following:



Reply from 216.58.219.206: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=53

Reply from 216.58.219.206: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=53

Reply from 216.58.219.206: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=53

Reply from 216.58.219.206: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=53

In this case, the time in milliseconds is the ping rate (or latency) between my home PC and the Google.com server. The program is telling me that it took an average of 30ms across four runs for my computer to communicate with Google.com.



In the majority of cases, the ping rate is equivalent to the effective latency between your home PC or tablet and the Internet. This is not always the case, however – network throttling and congestion sometimes means that your system might have very low latency when connecting to Google.com, but very high latency when connecting to Netflix, or a game like League of Legends. Still, the terms are synonymous enough that many games and programs report network latency as ping rate, measured in milliseconds.



1) In computer networks, bandwidth is used as a synonym for data transfer rate, the amount of data that can be carried from one point to another in a given time period (usually a second). Network bandwidth is usually expressed in bits per second (bps); modern networks typically have speeds measured in the millions of bits per second (megabits per second, or Mbps) or billions of bits per second (gigabits per second, or Gbps).

Answer 7

A Ping is a TINY piece of data. It takes no bandwidth at all. A ping measures the latency (delay) on the network.

So if a ping takes 5 seconds (sending no data), then sending 1Mb of data could take 50 hours or more!

Answer 8

Ping is the reaction time of your connection. It's milliseconds. If you have a 5 second ping, there is a serious connection issue - it should be thousands of times faster.