Re: Data Transfer Rate for 54Mbps 3com link

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:10:13 +1200, in alt.internet.wireless , Nho
Whei <NoWEi@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I've just measure it & find I'm getting an effective transfer rate of
>only 1.67MB per second.
>Seems a bit on the low side?

A bit, but not much.

54Mbps is roughly 6MB/s

At best you will get ~50% throughput due to protocol overheads, half
duplex etc etc -> 3MB/s.

Transferring small files will further reduce this due to further
overheads.
etc etc

It also depends on the hardware at each end. My server has a 100Mbps
ethernet card but struggles to push out more than 10Mbps with anything
requiring the CPU to intervene, as its running on a 200Mhz Pentium
Pro.....
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Mark McIntyre