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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

You are right.  I timed again and it took a count of 14 with one end at 
10Mbit and a count of 7 with both ends at 100Mb.  I would have expected 10 
times as fast.   


On Tue, 11 May 2004, Matrix Mole wrote:

> On Mon, 10 May 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> > I sent from a computer with 100Mbit to one with 10MBit and the speed
> > seemed identical (about 7 sec for 14M image file).  Is the speed
> > determined just by the sending end?  At 10 Mbit (about 1.2 Mbyte) per
> > second my 147MB linux installation would take 125 seconds or about 2
> > minutes to transfer, good enough for me.  60 min was actually a bit of a
> > wait (via plip).
> 
> The speed is determined by both ends of the line. If either end is only
> 10Mb, then you will only be able to transfer at 10Mb. If both ends are
> 100Mb, then you get that nice fast speed for 100Mb transfer. Imagine
> trying to push water through a pipe. If you have either end of the line
> partially closed, you limit the amount of water flowing through. If both
> ends are fully opened though, a lot more can get through.
> 
>