Latency vs Bandwidth - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between latency and bandwidth

is that latency is the state of being latent while bandwidth is the width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band.

(wikipedia latency)

(latencies)

The state of being latent.

(electronics) A delay, a period between the initiation of something and the occurrence.

(medicine) The delay between a stimulus and the response it triggers in an organism.

* (state of being latent) hiddenness, invisibility * lag (casual) * delay

(wikipedia bandwidth)

(en noun)

The width, usually measured in hertz, of a frequency band.

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But now is a good time to be bargaining for bandwidth , as the switch from analogue to digital television is freeing up space.

Of a signal, the width of the smallest frequency band within which the signal can fit

(networking) The rate of data flow in digital networks typically measured in bits per second

(informal) The capacity, energy or time required

I think it's a worthy project, but I just don't have the bandwidth right now.