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Technology Word Search
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LATENCY and BANDWIDTH get mixed up constantly, and the difference explains most complaints about a slow connection: bandwidth is how much fits through at once, latency is how long the first piece takes to arrive. A video call needs low latency; a download just needs width. The rest of this word find is the machinery around that, from the ROUTER and the CACHE to the FIRMWARE nobody thinks about until it updates itself.
Frequently asked questions
What is FIRMWARE?
Software written onto a device rather than installed on it, the layer that tells hardware how to behave before anything else loads. A router has firmware; a laptop has it too.
Why does a CACHE make things faster?
It keeps a copy of what was just fetched, close by. The second request skips the slow trip entirely, which is why a page reloads faster than it loaded.
