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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Ethernet vs. Token Ring for fiber-optic backbone links
- Message-ID: <C0GD2s.M3y@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:59:14 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.163236.17399@rpslmc.edu>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <1993Jan6.163236.17399@rpslmc.edu> bwolfe@rad.rpslmc.edu writes:
- >How about throughput for 16Mbps token ring vs. 10Mbps ethernet when you have
- >a point to point link via fiber...
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- It will depend a whole lot on the quality of the token-ring cards.
- Historically, real-life measured 16Mbps token-ring throughput has been
- seriously inferior to that of Ethernet, due to lousy implementations
- and limited vendor choice.
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- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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