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0 pointsjbay8084y ago0 comments

Can you explain the difference? They seem to me like virtually the same concept, but you seem to see an important distinction.

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p1esk4y ago· 1 in thread

Channel 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.

jbay808OP4y ago

Fair enough. But in review, they were indeed talking about the capacity:

> Or using the word "bandwidth" to refer to "capacity"[...]

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