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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