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You are missing my point: the raw bit rate of the network is not the rate of file transfers. There is a bunch of logic around the raw bits in the wire that make
by jo909 11y ago
You are missing my point: the raw bit rate of the network is not the rate of file transfers. There is a bunch of logic around the raw bits in the wire that make it mich more complicated than dividing by 8
- georgerobinson 11y agoFor example, the TCP throughput equation which can be expressed by the following http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cheung/Courses/558/Syllabus/07-TCP-Anal/FIGS/TCP-TPut.gif http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~cheung/Courses/558/Syllabus/07-... (depending on your degree of accuracy).
- rottyguy 11y agoActually, the real point is that the average person doesn't need engineering precision which is my original point. Whether it's 60sec or 65sec to xfer a file doesn't matter to them. Engineers always like to argue precision to justify complexity and lose sight of the larger picture (eg. consumers/majority matter). btw- how does expression it in bits v/s bytes help you with your desired calculations?
- jo909 11y agoYou brought up math. I never disputed that 100MB / 12.5MByte/s is slightly easier than 100MB / 100Mbit/s. I'm just saying that calculation, in both forms, gives a very inaccurate answer to how long a file transfer will take, which is what you brought up as the big reason. An easier and better answer is what jdiez17 described: just divide by 10. I.e. 100Mbit/s link speed is approximate 10MB/s of data transfer. All of that has nothing to do with bits vs bytes.