On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:59 -0500, Ted S. Letofsky wrote: > Hi Randy > > The WIRE speed of a 10bT NIC is approximately 1 MB / Second > The WIRE speed of a 100bT NIC is approximately 10 MB / Second > The WIRE speed of a 1000bT NIC is approximately 100 MB / Second > > In reality, you can get all of 1MB / Second in 10bT > You can get, (IF YOU PUSH HARD) about 6.5MB /Second in 100bT > You can get, (IF YOU PUSH REALLY HARD) about 37 MB Second in 1000bT. > What kind of CRACK are you smoking? 10mbit ethernet will move 1.2MB/s, 100mbit ethernet will move 12MB/s, and 1000mbit ethernet/fiber will move 120MB/s. There is no 'push really hard'. These are real numbers that I see *every day* on a real network, there is no 'i get a better signal with this monster cable gold plated ethernet so my network goes faster' when it comes to ethernet, it's either there (full speed) or it isn't (framing errors and collisions aside). [snip mostly correct jumbo frames info] > Also, as is obvious, you're likely going to get WAY better performance > across NFS or (god help you) SAMBA, than you will over SSH, due to > encryption taking up lots of bandwidth. > The overhead with SSH is CPU, the actual encryption data isn't much larger than the original unencrypted data.