[geeks] Well, THAT was a setback

[Phil Stracchino]

On 01/19/10 06:09, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> BTW, just for the record 1000BaseT is not 1000 megabits per second ethernet.
> It's four 250meg connections operating in parallel. In normal circumstances,
> I'm not sure that matters, but it might. 
> 
> I also have no idea of what happens when one of the connections stops
> working, do you loose them all, or does it just slow down?

I don't know.  What I can say is that the PTP gigabit connection between
babylon4 and minbar passes data somewhere around six to seven times as
fast as the switched 100Mbit connection.


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