Yo! Kerry:
Wednesday May 21 1997 13:01, Kerry Kowalski wrote to Bill Cheek:
 BC>>> By the way.....my Internet connection is now 24-hrs a day/7-days a
 BC>>> week at Ethernet speeds of 10-Mbps.   I downloaded the 3.02 version
 BC>>> of More like a bit over 2-hrs.....  I got it in 18-seconds.
 KK> Somthing don't wash here... You better check yer system... It only
 KK> should have taken 1 second for yer 10mb file... Someone may have fed you
 KK> the wrong specs...
ONLY the new 100-Mb Ethernet specs could whack a 10.6-MB file in about one 
second.  It would take three relatively unused T3 pipes to do that.  You got 
yer wires crossed up somewhere........
Sorry.....there's a big difference betwixt "bits" (b) and "bytes" (B), like 
about four or five orders of magnitude.
File sizes are expressed in BYTES whereas link speeds are usually expressed 
in "bits per second".  That 10.6-MByte file, counting overhead bits, comes to 
a good 100,600,000 bits.  And done in 18-sec, comes to 5.6-Mb/sec, about 
typical for Ethernet, even though the max is 10-Mbps.  That was a slow day.
More recently, I whacked a site for a 13.5-MB file in 16-secs, for a thruput 
of 8.4-Mbps.
Nope.  My specs are correct, and the results bear it out.
Bill Cheek ~ bcheek@san.rr.com
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team ~ Microsoft MVP
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