On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:36 PM, James Grabham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> It's not simply eight bits per byte for ethernet packets, it's more >> complicated than that and you're not taking into account collisions. >> > > a Byte is 8 bits, a bit being either 1 or 0... I thought that was a > fundemental of computer science. Yeah, but not all 8 of those bits are necessarily going to be carrying file data. And some get lost due to line noise etc. Sean
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