Have I The Bandwidth ?

[abrogard]

 This is the first time I've ever seen this Bitcoin thing, that's how new I am.

 On the 'choose your wallet' page there was an option to install a 'bitcoin client' - the 'original bitcoin client' and I thought I might do that.

 Then it led to an info page about 'bandwidth' which showed this bandwidth thing increasing up to, I think, something like 1700MB.

 And the thing is: I don't understand.  So I can't estimate if I've got it or not.  To me bandwidth is synonymous with speed - does that mean I'd need a speed like 2Gigabits (or even Bytes) / second?

 I have a DSL2 broadband connection and speedtest.net tells me I have a download speed of 4.5Mbps and upload of 0.6Mbps.

 ?

[gweedo]

no you will be fine, you misunderstood the page. Bandwidth is how much access you have to the internet some ISP caps it around 250GB, some allow unlimited. You should be fine if your speed is only 4.5mbps.

[dree12]

no you will be fine, you misunderstood the page. Bandwidth is how much access you have to the internet some ISP caps it around 250GB, some allow unlimited. You should be fine if your speed is only 4.5mbps.

Bandwidth refers to speed. Throughput refers to amount of data. The page should be updated to remedy this improper usage.