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- From: dave@dailis.xs4all.nl (dave@dailis.xs4all.nl)
- Date: 19 Mar 96 20:16:14
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: re: New ethernet card?
- Message-ID: <98f_9603210531@dialis.xs4all.nl>
- References: <4il54j$mue@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: Dialis Gateway, Enschede, The Netherlands.
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- Op tuesday March 19 '96 schreef ja aan All over 'Re: New ethernet card?':
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- cfpo> Typical ethernet connectivity will give you
- cfpo> cfpo> about nine or ten meg per second, which is pretty close to
- cfpo> cfpo> what the bandwidth of the A3000/4000's........
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- The normal Ethernet does 10 Mega_BIT_ per second, divide by 8 to get the
- bytes. And you have overhead and tranmission 'errors' so you can NEVER reach
- the 100%! So your speed of 10 Meg per sec is way to high. Maybe with the new
- 10_0_Mb a transfer rate of 10Mbye is normal, but I don't have any experience
- with this kind of networks.
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- CU
- Dave
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