[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] etho app rating 10/100 etc in megabytes

2011-02-24 Thread Harry Putnam
James writes: > Harry Putnam newsguy.com> writes: > > > >> But still, when I'm trying to measure how much data is moving > > emerge bwmon, > > It measures across the ethernet ports, so adjust your test, > according to what you want to measure, crossing the ethernet > port on the target system.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] etho app rating 10/100 etc in megabytes

2011-02-23 Thread James
Harry Putnam newsguy.com> writes: > But still, when I'm trying to measure how much data is moving emerge bwmon, It measures across the ethernet ports, so adjust your test, according to what you want to measure, crossing the ethernet port on the target system. > and it seems quite slow for

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] etho app rating 10/100 etc in megabytes

2011-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-22, Adam Carter wrote: > IIRC typical speeds on 100Mbps LANs are 4 or 5 MBps. There's many > factors that can affect speed tho. If you're using full-duplex switches, you should easily be able to get 11-12MBps on a 100MBps LAN. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYo

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] etho app rating 10/100 etc in megabytes

2011-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam writes: > I've gotten confused on this problem way too many times.. I'd like to > get some definitive starting points. > > When you see net adapters online they are always rated like > > 10/100 or 10/100/1000. So how does one turn that notation into > megabytes? > > I think those n