On Sep 15,  6:11pm, "Michael G. Schabert" wrote:
>You must remember that, unlike drives, network speeds are measured in 
>Kilobits per second instead of KiloBytes per second. This means that 
>the theoretical maximum speed across 100baseT Ethernet would be 12.5 
>KB/s. That would be theoretical, without accounting for any overhead 

You're off by several orders of magnitude.  100baseT is 100Mbits, or
approx 10Mbytes/second.  Going to my Indy, via a PC (NetBSD, Intel and
NE2000 enets, both 10baseT), and out to the net via a cable modem, I
have had download speeds of up to 750Kbytes/sec, sucking a 1GB OS update
off SGI's server.  That's close to the theoretical max for 10baseT...

~Steve


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