On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:05:21PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: | On 2011-06-03, Amit Kulkarni <amitk...@gmail.com> wrote: | > If the driver is em for Intel Pro/1000 MT, that has received a serious | > boost. People are reporting close to light speed :-) | | nah, close to light speed is on the MF, not MT.
Propagation speed in fibre optic cabling is ~182.000 km/s (.61c). For copper cabling, this ranges from .59c to .77c, with CAT5 around .64c. That would make MT faster than MF. Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- >++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/