10/100Mbps NIC, what gives...

[Vincent Trouilliez]

Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Very few servers are going to be capable of giving you better than 1- 1.2
> MB/s ;-)

Hmmm... then I think the situation in France is better than that in
Australia... I will stay here then ! ;-)

There are already plenty of people in France, all over the country,
that use the same ISP as me, and that do get actual 30Mbps.
Also, the main advantage (in my case) of 30Mbps is for downloading ISO
of Ubuntu CD's and DVD, and in that case I use Bittorrent, so as I
understand it, this potentioally allows any speed, assuming there are
enough people seeding the file at a given time (and you have decent
outgoing B/W). So the capacity of servers isn't really a problem since
it's not even used ;-) Well, unless my understanding of Bittorrent is a
bit too simplistic and I am being naive ;-)

> Also, if I remember correctly, on cable you are sharing your bandwidth
> with others on the same subnet, so your  download capacity will vary with
> how many people are using the network heavily at a given time.

Well, it's up to the ISP to engineer and spec their hardware
infrastructure to cope with the traffic that it advertises.
If they can't give us 30MBps, then either don't sell us 30Mbps, or sell
us what you are capable/willing of delivering !
Honestly, they better manage to deliver 30/1 Mbps reliably, otherwise
nobody will take them seriously/trust them (hence migrate to them from
ADSL) later this year, when they start selling us their symmetrical
100Mbps offer on their optical fiber network that they have just
finished testing in a few cities across the country.

> Hey, 1 - 1.2 MB/s is pretty good anyway, is it not?  *G*

Yeah, sure ! ;-) .... except it's supposed to (and indeed for
others does) achieve 3 times this figure, and advertised/SOLD as
such ! ;-)

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Vince