[SPAM] Re: SCP speed question

[Rick Bowers]

At 1/6/2007 12:08 AM, you wrote:


>Are you sure you're not seeing between 4 and 11MB/s?  Most measurements of
>transfer speed are done in BYTES not bits, as the network gear is rated.
>Approx divide by 10, particularly over wan links (analog: 8 bits data, 1
>start, 1 stop).  Or if you want to think perfect world switching, /8 is more
>your cup o' tea.

Perhaps I'm wrong, but I thought start/stop bits applied only to 
synch/asynch communications. TCP/IP has no start/stop bits as far as 
I know. So, don't we (mostly) all divide by 8 these days?

~Rick


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