At 1:35 PM -0700 2/2/09, Bruce Johnson posted: > On Feb 2, 2009, at 12:33 PM, Steve R wrote: > >> >> Only in my dreams? So, using MenuMeters to monitor my Ethernet >> speeds, I'm seeing upwards of 10MB (averaging around 9MB) between the >> iMac and the NAS when transferring large files on CAT-5. Is this the >> 100 of 10/100 speeds? > > 10 megabytes per second is ~84 megabits per second, this is what you > should expect for 100 mbit devices, particularly on consumer-grade > networking equipment. Rated throughput is always theoretical, not > actual. > > Throughput (mb/s) is not quite the same as transfer speed, the best > way to calculate that is to time how long it takes to transfer files > to and fro. > > Back when I was trying to find hunt down some weird issues on our > network, I made a 10 and 5 MB file of random characters, then timed > the transfer with a perl script.
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