Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 10:39:07AM -0000, Dan Purgert wrote: >> Curt wrote: >> > On 2017-05-26, Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >> >> It seems like you read my original problem as slowness accessing the >> >> internet. That isn't the problem, I'm concerned about intra-LAN speeds. >> >> Haven't even got the length of worrying about internet speeds yet, since >> >> there are so many variables that can impact that, I have to be sure my >> >> end is in tip-top shape before I start poking at that. >> > >> > Intra-LAN speeds; I thought you were speaking of transferring a movie >> > file(?) between two computers on your LAN [...] >> >> Think he goofed the word, but intranet ("LAN") speeds would affect >> transferring a movie. >> > > No "goof"ing involved, thank you very much -- at least not at this end. > Intra-LAN means exactly what it says -- inside the LAN. "Inter" means > "between" -- "intra" means "inside". You seem like a native speaker of > English, I would have expected you to know that. Apologies if I am > wrong.
The reason I said you "goofed" is that there is no word "intra-LAN" used in networking. The closest (common) word would be "intranet", meaning precisely what you wanted to convey with your word choice. > >> > [...] which couldn't proceed any faster than the receiving end could >> > write that file to disk? I mean, would that not be a limiting factor, >> > even with a quantum link? >> >> I/O speeds of the drives are definitely a factor -- but pretty much >> anything relatively decent (i.e. not those godawful 5400 RPM laptop >> drives) can read fast enough to saturate a wifi link. On the "writing" >> side, it's buffered to RAM first, so that'll help (even with a godawful >> slow 5400 RPM laptop drive). >> >> SSD's shouldn't have much trouble (though, does kind of depend on the >> SATA bus). >> > > Receiver is a high-end laptop hard disk. Based on regular usage of the > laptop I am extremely confident it is fast enough to not be a factor. Yeah, my comment was more directed at Curt, to explain that while disk I/O "may" come into play, it really will only do so if the drive's sustainable speeds are significantly lower than that of the network link. -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281