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Old May 22nd 04, 09:22 PM
kony
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On Sat, 22 May 2004 16:25:13 +0100, "Cuzman"
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"Brandon Brown" wrote in message
t.cable.rogers.com...

" I assume 1000 Mbps would give me at least 200 Mbps in trasfer speed! Am I
correct? "


If you put a huge exhaust on a **** car, it doesn't become a Ferrari. You
are always limited by the slowest link in the chain.

The 32-bit PCI bus bandwidth is limited to 127.2Mbps, so 200Mbps is
unrealistic. At the moment, gigabit ethernet (GbE) only tends to show real
improvements for network backbones with 64-bit PCI 2.1 bus speeds.
PCI-Express motherboards with Serial-ATA RAID-0 configurations will improve
GbE speeds for workstations over the coming year, but you still might not
reach 200Mbps with that.




Nope, PC bus limit is around 127 MegaBYTES = 1000 MegaBITS.
In a PC the PCI bus is one of the bottlenecks, but nowhere near signifiant
enough to prevent 200Mbps the OP expected.