On Mi, 23 dec 20, 10:56:36, Nicolas George wrote: > Andy Smith (12020-12-23): > > "gigabyte" is not a network speed. You probably mean gigabit > > No, gigabit is 10³ bits, there is no "per second" involved either. > > Anyway, why would anybody honest want to use this kind of unit to > measure an actual speed is beyond me. The only point to speak in > kilo/mega/gigabits per second instead is to make the numbers seem larger > to attract clueless customers. Moreover, the ratio between these numbers > and the actual useful network speed is not eight at one might believe, > because they measure below the low-level network protocols.
I took that to mean the theoretical maximum.
For a quick estimation of "good" transfer rates a ten to one ratio is
probably sufficient, e.g.:
1 Gbit/s = 1000 Mbit/s ~ 100 M(ilion) bytes (octets) per second
(which is approximately 95,367432 MiB/s according to 'qalc')
If one reaches that in real world transfers (as opposed to specialized
tests) any further significant improvements will likely require hardware
upgrades.
Kind regards,
Andrei
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