How to verify speed of a 1Gb/s network?

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Apr 28 06:32:21 UTC 2006


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.

Mike
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