On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Mike McCarty wrote:
Joel Jaeggli wrote:
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 19:32 -0700, Rob wrote:
Am I right, that the throughput here is 1 Giga BYTES,
which is 8 Giga bits?
Network card speeds are listed in bits per second. These are the three
most common speeds:
10 mega bits per second
100 mega bits per second
1 giga bits per second
Don't ask me whether they're playing the SI or bullshit game regarding
mega and giga equalling millions and billions, or using 1024
multipliers.
Bits are in fact bits in this case. When you talk about packets or frames
you tend to use bytes or octets (same thing) but line rate is bits per
second.
I think the issue raised was whether 1 Gbps is 1024*1024*1024 bps or
1000*1000*1000 bps.
1 billion bits per second is 1*10^9 bits, contrast with 2^30 bits which bc
says is 1073741824
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit
Mike
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