On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 19:32 -0700, Rob wrote:
Am I right, that the throughput here is 1 Giga BYTES, which is 8 Giga bits?
Network card speeds are listed in bits per second. These are the three most common speeds:
10 mega bits per second 100 mega bits per second 1 giga bits per second
Don't ask me whether they're playing the SI or bullshit game regarding mega and giga equalling millions and billions, or using 1024 multipliers.
Bits are in fact bits in this case. When you talk about packets or frames you tend to use bytes or octets (same thing) but line rate is bits per second.
joelja
I gave up trying to remember which different systems went down that stupid route. If it said MiB or GiB, I'd know. Otherwise I can't tell.