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goodput
Last modified: Wednesday, September 02, 2009
In networking terms — for wired and wireless networks — goodput is used to
describe the number of packets that are exchanged between the applications that
use the network.
A more commonly known related term is throughput.
It measures the amount of packets exchanged over the network to determine
network efficiency.
Goodput can also be described as measuring the throughput at the application
level.
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