[OT] Bandwidth [was A little Microsoft humor...]

[Michael ODonnell]

Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> According to Wikipedia:
>   Broadband in telecommunications is a term which refers to a signaling
>   method which includes or handles a relatively wide range of
>   frequencies...
> So, as long as the signalling is occuring over multiple frequencies,
> regardless of *HOW MUCH* data is being delivered, you have a
> broadband connections.  DSL is broadband, a T1 is not.

I note that this Wikipedia entry is careful to acknowledge
that there are in fact many commonly accepted [mis]usages,
particularly when it comes to describing digital communications:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth