Let's suppose you have two primary tasks for your computer: 1. You want to play online video games like World of Warcraft or Halo where knowledge of exactly where you are and where your opponents are is critical at all times. 2. You want to download torrents of free television and radio shows. For which of those applications your internet connection's bandwidth more important than it's response time (latency) ?

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Jasper Pierce

18 May, 08:58

Let's suppose you have two primary tasks for your computer: 1. You want to play online video games like World of Warcraft or Halo where knowledge of exactly where you are and where your opponents are is critical at all times. 2. You want to download torrents of free television and radio shows. For which of those applications your internet connection's bandwidth more important than it's response time (latency) ?

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Nathan Huynh · Answer 1

To download torrents of free television and radio shows.

Explanation:

The internet is a global wide area network, since it connects devices globally for easy data sourcing. The traffic on the internet depends on the bandwidth it's medium can allow and the size of the packets being transferred.

The transfer of packets based on it's use or application is very important. Some packets like video and audio packets needs a certain level of bandwidth, to avoid distortion of the media file. When the bandwidth is low, the video or audio buffers and streams are skipped sue to packet lose due to propagation delay.