Lousy Network Performance

[Aaron Grewell]

> > You're the second person to suggest that. I don't really understand 
> > the difference between half and full duplex, but I have always just 
> > assumed full duplex was better because, well, "half" isn't 
> as good as 
> > "full." " :-\

In a perfect world this is true, but a lot of nasty old hardware has so much
trouble dealing with FDx that HDx is actually faster.  This was common in
low-quality 10Mb interfaces, esp of the ISA variety.  Happily, I suppose
"common" no longer really applies to that scenario. :)