| Host: |
A fully qualified domain name (FQDN) identifying one specific host computer within the Internet. e.g. company.com, www.company.com, somename.company.com are your HOST. |
| Domain: |
The conventional Internet name for a network or computer system, which name consists of a sequence of two or more groups of characters separated by periods. e.g. company.com, company.ca are domain names. They can be purchased and registered through Register.com, Network Solutions, etc. |
| Bandwidth: |
The Maximum amount of raw data can transmitted per second.
e.g. A 100 Mbps hub/switch supports up to 100 Mbps of data being transffered. |
| Throughput: |
The actual amount of data moved successfully from one place to another in a given time period.
e.g. Transfering a file on an average utilized 100 Mbps network with a Pentium II 300 Mhz web server may result having speed of 20Mbps-30 Mbps because of overhead such as network, cpu, hard drive speed, memory, etc. |
Mbps (megabit-per-second) and
Kbps (kilobit-per-second): |
Mbps stands for millions of bits per second or megabits per second and is a measure of bandwidth (the total information flow over a given time) on a telecommunications medium. Depending on the medium and the transmission method, bandwidth is sometimes measured in the Kbps (thousands of bits or kilobits per second) range or the Gbps (billions of bits or gigabits per second) range. |
MB/sec (Megabyte-per-second) and
KB/sec (kilobyte-per-second): |
A kilobyte (KB) equals 1024 (or 210) bytes. Likewise, a megabyte (MB) equals 1024 KB or 220 bytes and a gigabyte (GB) equals 1024 MB or 230 bytes. The meaning of the words kilobyte, megabyte, and gigabyte change when they are used in the context of network data rates. A rate of one kilobyte per second (KBps) equals 1000 (not 1024) bytes per second; one megabyte per second (MBps) equals one million (106, not 220) bytes per second; one gigabyte per second (GBps) equals one billion (109, not 230) bytes per second. |
Bps (byte-per-second) and
bps (bit-per-second): |
As 8-bit byte architectures have become prevalent today, one can generally convert from Bps down to bps safely by multiplying by a factor of eight.
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