The capacity of a communications channel to transmit information. Bandwidth is said to be congested when many users are sharing the same communications channel, using up the available bandwidth. Bandwidth is usually expressed in term of frequency, ie khz or Mhz. Baud A unit which to measure the speed of modems run roughly equivalent to 1 bit per second.
All information stored on and used by a computer is in the form of binary code.
Because the extended characters found in binary files may be peculiar to a particular computer platform, most binary files cannot be used on more than one system. See binary file transfer . This allows software etc. to be transferred on the Internet by e-mail. BinHexed files have the file extension .hqx . These voltages are represented by the digits 0 and 1.