[Gllug] Observed speed of gigabit ethernet only about 1/4 or 1/5 of advertised

[James Roberts]

Rich Walker wrote:
> James Roberts <jr at stabilys.com> writes:
>> 100Mbps duplex *is* 200Mbps...
>>
>> gigabit duplex is 2000Mbps (should see 17/1800)
> 
> Didn't they cheat for gigabit and use all the wires in the cable anyway
> (i.e., no special duplex mode...)?

Sort of. Not quite. See:
 
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/als00/2000papers/papers/full_papers/ong/ong_html/node5.html

'Course to make full use of it you need:

http://sd.wareonearth.com/~phil/jumbo.html

MeJ
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