"Michael G. Schabert" <mikeride@mac.com> writes:

>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 

That would be rather detrimental to real life, since it would bring
Fast Ethernet down to serial modem or ISDN dialup performance,
completely unsuitable for anything beyond basic telnet or ssh on a LAN.
It's more like 10MByte/s (1MByte/s for 10BaseT), isn't it.

--mkb