Home Network and Communications Channel

• Many home users connect multiple computers and devices together in a home network

• Communications channel refers to transmission media on which data, instructions, or information travel in a communications system.
• Transmission media carries one or more signals.
• Bandwidth refers to the amount of data that can travel over a communications channel Latency is the time it takes a signal to travel from one location to another on a network.
• Broadband media transmit multiple signals simultaneously.