Re: Low router throughputs (WAN->LAN)

Rick Marks wrote:
> I discovered recently that my VoIP router (SPA-3102) and its
> predecessor (SPA-2100) can't route from WAN-LAN faster than about
> 7.5Mbps. The latter not helped by only having 10Mbps Ethernet
> interfaces.

10Mbps of ethernet does not mean you will get 10Mbps of IP, because of
the overhead of the protocol stack.

For starters, every Ethernet frame has a 53 byte lead in.


Tim