What are transmission rates?

Transmission rates are how fast information can travel from one place to another, like how quickly a message is sent from your friend to you.

Imagine you and your friend are playing a game with marbles. Every time you send a marble down a tube, it carries part of the message. The more marbles you send in a minute, the faster the whole message gets through. That’s kind of like transmission rates, they tell us how many "marbles" (or pieces of information) can be sent in one second.

Think about it like a highway for cars. If only one car can go at a time, that's slow. But if many cars can move quickly, that’s faster travel. Transmission rates are like the number of cars on that highway, more cars mean more information is moving at once.

If you're watching a video on your tablet and the connection is slow, it might buffer or stop for a moment, like waiting for the next marble to come through. But if the transmission rate is high, everything plays smoothly, just like marbles coming one after another without stopping.