On Thu, 26 February 1998 at 0:25:04 +0000, John Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:36:15 +1030, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
>
>>> It doesn't jive at all with test results Tolly published several years
>>> ago in Data Communications.
>>
>> Did he have an axe to grind?
>
> Not that I know of.
>
>>> He said token ring would run at full 16mb wire speed while Ethernet
>>> would degrade to 7mb because of collisions.
>>
>> Right, and none of us have ever seen more than 7 Mb/s out of a 10 Mb
>> Ethernet, right?
>
> You're dodging the collision issue.
Not at all.
> I've seen 10mb between two stations on my BNC Ethernet when nothing
> else is on the wire, but more stations talking will cause throughput
> to fall off.
Sure. That's the whole point. Without stating the test conditions,
the figure of 7 Mb/s is meaningless.
>> Any such statement *must* be qualified by the test conditions.
>
> He probably tested it more thoroughly than either one of us have.
Sre.
> Why not read his report instead of throwing stones?
Did you publish a URL? In any case, I wasn't so much complaining
about the report as picking an unqualified value from it.
Greg
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