[SPAM] Re: SCP speed question

[Alma J Wetzker]

Rick Bowers wrote:
> 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?

The only time I am aware of that you can divide by eight is on a pure
synchronous connection with out of band signaling.  That ain't Ethernet.
 At a physical level, you need some mechanism to make sure the send and
receive clocks are the same speed, at the very least.  That overhead
will occur well below the TCP layers.  It still is a divide by ten rule.
 The exception is ISDN (and some types of DSL) that are pure synchronous.

    -- Alma