Typically, you will see Mb/s or Mbit/s for megabit/sec and MB/s for megabyte/sec. So Fast Ethernet has a wire speed of 12.5 MB/s. Considering 10-15% for overhead (e.g., Ethernet, IP, and TCP headers), you really max out around 10 MB/s to 11 MB/s. With GigE that number is around 105 MB/s.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 12:15 PM Subject: waitasec... gigabit?!? was Re: [brlug-general] networking ignorance > You mean this is all marketing hype?!? I assumed > 1000MB ethernet meant 10 times faster than 100MB... > > wow. guess I should pay attention to the fine print... > :) > > --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Brad Bendily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 9:38 AM > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] networking ignorance > > > > > > > > I can't see you needing to spend the money on > > the kind of hardware you'd > > > > need to achieve this. > > > > > > I'd have to agree with this statement. > > > > > > One bottleneck you didn't think of is the speed of > > your workstations. > > > Your hard drives probably won't be able to write > > data any faster than > > > the 100MB speed any way. So 1000MB may be useless. > > > > Keep in mind that network numbers are usually in > > Mbit/s while storage > > numbers are in MB/s. So a gigabit switch running at > > 1000 Mbit/s is running > > at 125 MB/s. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
