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Re: off topic: dvd question



On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Vadim Smelyansky wrote:

> > that limit (it is the nominal bit rate value). As Ariel correctly
> > noted, 2 station 10BaseT network (or a two-station coax setup) can
> > sometimes get as high as 8 or 8.5Mb/s.
> 	You are wrong! I get 2 stations ~1Mb/sec under OS/2 LAN Server
> 	Of course it was only 2 w/s :)

This sentence makes little sense, unless by 1Mb/s you mean 1 Mbyte/sec,
thus 8Mb/s (this is the notation use for Mbit/sec).

> 
> p.s. Do not mix Mbits/sec and Mbyte/sec!

I hardly think Doron mixes Mbyte/sec with Mbit/sec.


To sum this up, you just said exactly what he did.

--Ariel
> 
> 
> > Moral: You don't have 13Mb/s NICs :-)
> 	Unreal :) for this type of hardware :)
> 
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