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Re: Ethernet card- alternatives
- Subject: Re: Ethernet card- alternatives
- From: ccw@duck.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Christopher Wood)
- Date: Tue, 7 Dec 93 19:30:55 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- References: <9311260521.AA12880@clarknet.clark.net>
- Sender: netnews@porthos.cc.bellcore.com (USENET System Software)
In article <9311260521.AA12880@clarknet.clark.net>, beta@gnh-starport.UUCP writes:
|> > AppleTalk runs at 233K Bits/Sec; Ethernet has a nominal speed of 10M
|> > Bits/Sec, with actual throughput more like 1 - 3 Megabits/sec. So
|> > LocalTalk and similar hardware (PhoneNet, etc.) is 4 to 12 times
|> > slower. AppleTalk is the name of the entire protocol stack, and can
|> > (in theory) run on ATM at hundreds of Megabits to Gigabits per
|> > second...
|> > Chris Wood Bellcore ccw@ctt.bellcore.com
|> 1-3 Mb/sec?? explain how my workstation does 695KB/sec over
|> ethernet and I'm competing with 40 novel clients and 10 mac's.
695 KiloBytes/sec ~= .7 Megabytes/sec or 5.6 Megabits per second.
Better than average, but not unbelievable. The other clients were
inactive (not doing anything over the network) when you took the
measurements.
Chris
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Chris Wood Bellcore ccw@ctt.bellcore.com