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Say what?

Posted Jun 11, 2009 21:16 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Say what? by sbergman27
Parent article: Linux first to offer USB 3.0 driver (Linux Devices)

Do you have a 100MB ethernet adapter?

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Posted Jun 11, 2009 21:39 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link] (2 responses)

No. I have a mix of 12.5MB/s and 125MB/s NICs.

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Posted Jun 12, 2009 6:40 UTC (Fri) by shalem (subscriber, #4062) [Link] (1 responses)

I doubt you have 125MegaByte/second NIC's unless you've got fiber using NIC's, Gigabit over coper is a sham and only does 500 Mbit (which they
multiplied by 2 as its fullduplex, with that reasoning 100Mbit nics are 200Mbit). Yip, another score for the marketing department.

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Posted Jun 12, 2009 6:48 UTC (Fri) by yootis (subscriber, #4762) [Link]

Completely wrong. Gigabit ethernet is 1 gigabit in each direction simultaneously. Fiber or copper doesn't matter, they get the same speed.

I routinely get 960 megabits per second in each direction at the same time.