Subject: Re: Network speeds
From: Joshua J.Kugler (isd@as.uaf.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 14:18:43 AKST
That is right. When dealing with network speeds, you use base 10, not base
two. So 100mbits is 100,000,000 bits.
j----- k-----
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 13:18, Mike Barsalou wrote:
> Is it right to say 100mbits/sec = 12.5 mbytes/sec = 750 mbytes/min = 45000
> mbytes/hour? Something tells me that my math is wrong somewhere.
>
> I realize these would be theoretical because of overhead and such.
>
> I am trying to determine how long it might take to copy 20Gigs of data over
> a 100mb link.
>
> Mike
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