[mythtvnz] Realtek NICs

[Steve Hodge]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:16 PM, <criggie at criggie.dyndns.org> wrote:

> On 13/05/10 18:05, Steve Hodge wrote:
> > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:07 PM, <criggie at criggie.dyndns.org
> > <mailto:criggie at criggie.dyndns.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Steve Hodge wrote, On 05/13/2010 04:28 PM:
> >      > Benchmarking with netio I can get about 58MB/s (TCP), still
> >      > limited by the CPU in the fileserver. Between my desktop and
> laptop I
> >      > can get up to about 75MB/s and it doesn't seem to be pegging the
> CPUs
> >      > (I guess it might be pegging one of the cores in the laptop). It
> seem
> >      > likely that the cheap switches I'm using are a bottleneck.
> >
> >     That's dreadful.... that's not even "okay" for 100 Mbit, let alone
> gig.
> >
> > Those numbers are bytes, not bits. And I think payload numbers rather
> > than raw bandwidth.
>
> Doh sorry.  I'm used to using megabits for link bandwidths.  Noone
> measures links in megabytes/second... not sure why.
>

No one seems to measure link speeds in bytes (I think because bit numbers
are better for marketing), but it's probably more common for bandwidth
numbers to be in bytes than in bits. File transfer speeds, bittorrent etc
all seem to be in KB/s.

Cheers,
Steve
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