On 1/22/2012 9:09 PM, T o n g wrote: > Thanks again for everyone's follow up. Interesting discussion. > > On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:09:13 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >> 9.9MB/s (megabyte/sec.) is roughly 80mb/s (megabit/sec) - fairly >> reasonable for a 100baseT network card > > Oh, now I recall why I thought my card could do better. Apparently my > ethernet knowledge was still back in the 10baseT/100baseT era, i.e., > thinking 10baseT is 10MB/s. :-)
Not a matter of ethernet knowledge, but a matter of forgetting that serial communication is stated in bits per second, and file copies are stated in bytes per second. You were comparing apples to oranges instead of apples to apples. Always be mindful of "MB" and "Mb", megabytes and megabits. Ethernet is always the latter. Ethernet at 100 Mb/s = 12.5 MB/s File copy at 10 MB/s = 80 Mb/s Ethernet at 1000 Mb/s = 125 MB/s File copy at 117 MB/s = 936 Mb/s And so on. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f1ceca7.5090...@hardwarefreak.com
