One trip · three things to measure
Same connection, three different stories.
Watch the same Sender to Receiver path through each metric. Latency is one packet's journey. Throughput is the stream that arrives. Bandwidth is the channel they all share.
Latency
the delay
Sender
Receiver
40 ms
round-trip, 1 packet
Throughput
what arrives
Sender
Receiver
62 Mbps
data per second
Bandwidth
the ceiling
Sender
Receiver
100 Mbps
link capacity