Themis;346716 Wrote: > *cough*cough*... you know and I know that all this is far from actual > useful bandwidth. Don't we ? :D > > How about collisions ? re-negotiations ? retries ? Are they part of > useful bandwidth ? Ahhh... backbones... ahem: A point-to-point > communication: who cares about protocols on p-t-p ? How about networks > ?
It's OT so I'll keep this very short; For networks, both ethernet and tr have overhead and both need and use switching technology. 100BaseTx switched is far faster than 16Mbps switched tr and both are 100% collision free because every PC's NIC supports full-duplex. But with ethernet you can do 1000BaseTx collision free with even my stupid & silly 4 switched ports on the wifi router. That leaves tr with it's 15x slower technology biting the dust and now we have 10Gbps ethernet while hstr (high speed token ring) is still a 100 Mbps dream that will never come true as there's only 1 company left (Madge) that says they support it without having any products for it and without any release dates. No, tr is dead. But it's internal workings were better. Even fddi and cddi are dead. Try to buy a router for it... ciao! Nick. -- DeVerm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DeVerm's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18104 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53018 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
