To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (6981 ) 4/10/1999 2:13:00 AM From: Sean W. Smith Respond to
I've always understood a lower case b to mean bits, and an upper case B to mean bytes. But Spots is right in that they are often exchanged without regard. Most people don't know a bit from a byte. In theory your math is correct, but you've not figured in any machine or network overhead. In reality the actual speeds are much less. I can routinely get 3.5 to 4.5 megabytes per second between a NT workstation with a single NTFS eide drive, and a NT server with a NTFS, SCSI, multi drive raid 5 array. This rate is usually achievable on large files over 75 meg. That translates to only 35-45% of the theoretical rate that 100mbps is capable of. I have tweaked, tuned, caressed, cajoled, begged, fiddled, and wished for a better rate, but that is the best I can achieve with my limited technical abilities. This is even hooked through an Intel 510T ethernet switch, full duplex, so i know that network traffic through the hub is not at fault. I am OK with this rate, it is pretty quick.
