[39419] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: High speed access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Fri Jul 6 12:52:25 2001
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 12:51:51 -0400
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20010706095319.A14675@noc.untraceable.net>; from twofsonet@graffiti.com on Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:53:19AM -0400
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:53:19AM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:
> symetric 11 Mbps sounds...goofy. especially if based on 802.11b,
> which utilizes a broadcast mechanism. besides, i've yet to meet
> *anyone* who got past about 2/3 of the theoretical "bandwidth" of
> 802.11b. imho, it's the spinal tap of the networking era (it "goes to
> 11", but is actually just a rumor and sort of made up).
I believe you will find 802.11b performs about as well, on average,
as 10 meg shared ethernet.
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Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org
Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440
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