On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 21:39:02 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 9/13/2017 3:23 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: >> I have a family of four, plus occasional guests. If I had every >> device that could be connected to ethernet connected to wifi, >> I would spend all my time debugging wifi problems. > > Either you exaggerate or you've been doing very very wrong things > because for example my brother has WiFi for his family plus guests and > nobody there ever spends time debugging WiFi problems. While I don't > have the numbers of users that they or you have I spend essentially zero > time debugging WiFi problems and I've been almost completely wireless > for 3, maybe 4 years now. The singular exception was when I was futzing > around with my Raspberry Pi and discovering how awful the Linux WiFi > tools are. > >> So, no, you don't need jumbo packets to get 900+Mb/s >> out of your 1000Mb/s ethernet connection. That's through >> a very boring Netgear $50 switch. > > Information is missing. > > 1000Base-T is 500Mbps each way (theoretical maximum), but it works with > Cat 5e. You cannot get 900Mbps throughput with 1000Base-T. It's > physically impossible. Real world throughput with file data is around > the 300Mbps I previously cited.
You're wrong: ftp> get Musopen-DVD.zip local: Musopen-DVD.zip remote: Musopen-DVD.zip 229 Extended Passive mode OK (|||30016|) 150-Accepted data connection 150 2357995.9 kbytes to download 100% |***********************************| 2302 MiB 96.71 MiB/s 00:00 ETA 226-File successfully transferred 226 24.191 seconds (measured here), 95.19 Mbytes per second This is 1000Base-T, with standard cat 5e cable. scp isn't much slower. -- Robert Krawitz <r...@alum.mit.edu> *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
