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| Thread ID: 33069 | 2003-05-06 06:17:00 | mega byte | Ron Bakker (356) | Press F1 |
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| 141779 | 2003-05-06 06:17:00 | I'm just familarising myself with network cards.Just to get this straight does 100 mega bits= 100000000 which divided by eight =12500000 bytes which divided a thousand is a mega byte, wait I think that's not quite right is it because isn't there 10024 bytes to a megabyte. Where did I put that glass of wine?:| |
Ron Bakker (356) | ||
| 141780 | 2003-05-06 06:25:00 | The unit of speed for Ethernet is MHz: megahertz, "millions of cycles/second". The same megahertz that are used for FM radio stations, and microwave ovens (2450 MHz in that case). The megas are the 10^6 ones, not the computer 2^20 megas. Confusing, isn't it? :D The clock frequency of the ethernet does not directly translate to bytes/second, because the rate depends on the packet size, because of the overhead of the protocol. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 141781 | 2003-05-06 06:28:00 | I think it's byte = 8 bits kb =1024 bytes mb = 1024 kb gb = 1024 mb there was a formula to work it out... involving 2 to the power of..... something |
somebody (208) | ||
| 141782 | 2003-05-06 06:28:00 | oops... didn't read the question properly | somebody (208) | ||
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