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Thanks for your precision. Off-topic: It's true that "faster Internet" means "bigger Internet" in common language, just like in photography "faster lens" means "lens with more light gathering capability". I wonder if there's other field where "faster" is misused.

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Higher bandwidth means less time to transmit a given packet. Just like more light gathering in a lens allows faster shutter speeds.

If you had to move 100 tons of packages, which is going to be faster - a Lamborghini going 200 mph, or a tractor/trailer going 50mph?

If you’re trying to set a speed record and don’t care about bringing anything along, which is faster?

Neither meaning is necessarily wrong.

Even if directly it isn't technically right to say it's faster, but with it's applications built upon such technology it manifests in these tasks being done faster. Makes sense.

And the time for the lambo and the tractor will depend on the round trips each will have to do, so it depends on the medium.

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