[lug] NIC Speed

[Peter Hutnick]

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On Thursday 02 May 2002 12:11 pm, Bear Giles wrote:

> A lot of us are running older hardware.  Most of my systems are still
> around 200 MHz,

Would I be wrong in guessing that "most" of your ~200MHz systems are "purpose 
oriented" things like mail, NFS, DNS, routing, firewalling, and are therefore 
loafing almost all the time?

> and as I mentioned earlier my cable modem can see speeds
> as high as 1 Mbps (to say nothing of my internal 100 Mbps network).
> You can't really handwave that everyone is running 1GHz processes but
> still limited to dialup connections.

Maybe you are more fond of decimals than I am, but it seems rational to me to 
measure something that is "as high as 1M" in k.

For reference I said "But in a day and age when your 100Mb NIC has a 1GHz proc 
on one side and an internet connection measured in kbps on the other it 
hardly matters in most cases."  I didn't say dialup.  Most "broadband" (as 
differentiated from telco data lines) is still measured in k.

- -Peter

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