Re: poor ethernet performance?

[Matthew Dillon]

:
:And you seen the nice square waves of 100Mb or !Gb ether on a line then? The
:techniques used for transmitting 100Mb/s down copper are certainly not digital.
:Pulse shaping, line estimation, ISI removal are all analogue!
:
:The cable itself is less improtant than the impedance matching at connectors
:and bends in the cable.
:
:Duncan
:
:Duncan Barclay          | God smiles upon the little children,
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned.

    Obviously you don't get square waves going down the wire - But it is
    still a digital communications protocol.

                                        -Matt



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