On Saturday, September 10, 2016 10:40:26 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 10 September 2016 10:26:15 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, September 10, 2016 08:41:53 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > It's in megabytes per second, so assume 1000/8 = 250 MB/s is the > > > bandwidth of a gigabit ethernet NIC. > > > > Sorry, I tend to pick at nits, but, for the record, 1000/8 is 125 > > Mb/s. It doesn't (really) change your conclusions. > > > > regards, > > Randy Kramer > > You make an assumption many folks do, but theres a start bit and a stop > bit so the math is more like 1000/10=100 Mb/s.
Well, 1000/8 is still 125 ;-) but I wouldn't have written back just to say that. Isn't it the case that there is something less than 1 start and 1 stop for every byte--maybe like 1 stop bit for every several bytes? (I am just (slightly) curious.) And, iirc, there are variations (which may be obsolete--I seem to remember one protocol that had either 2 start or 2 stop bits? regards, Randy Kramer