On 09/10/2016 07:53 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, September 10, 2016 10:40:26 AM Gene Heskett wrote: >> You make an assumption many folks do, but theres a start bit and a stop >> bit so the math is more like 1000/10=100 Mb/s. > > > Well, 1000/8 is still 125 ;-) but I wouldn't have written back just to say > that. Isn't it the case that there is something less than 1 start and 1 stop > for every byte--maybe like 1 stop bit for every several bytes? (I am just > (slightly) curious.) > > And, iirc, there are variations (which may be obsolete--I seem to remember > one > protocol that had either 2 start or 2 stop bits?
I remember start/stop bits from RS-232/485, but Gigabit Ethernet signaling is more advanced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet David