Asus A8V NIC issues

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Jul 27 03:26:50 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:46 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> Just note that using a switch increases the number of hops for each
> packet. 

Which might introduce propagation *delays* not changes in speed.

> the declared speed of 1 Gbps is the speed at which data travels
> through the ethernet cable.

That'd be a (theoretical) maximum of 1 Gbps of something going through
the cable.  Most of that *something* is your data, and some of it is the
*handling* of the data.

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