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IEEE 802.3: 1 Mb/s=10^6 b/s?
Apologies for no feedback, but I was away for holidays. For most CS people, M = K^2 = 2^20; see the NIST page. In the meantime, my problem was solved on another news group...- KCKtt
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IEEE 802.3: 1 Mb/s=10^6 b/s?
The IEEE standard 802.3 employs "Mb/s" (or "Mbit/s"), but I can't find any explicit definition in http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.3-2002_part1.pdf I believe that 1 Mb/s means a bit rate of one million bits per second (10^6 b/s), and that it is defined in...- KCKtt
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slow network WinXP and Win98SE
Apparently slow networking between XP and 98SE is well known, but I have found no fixes (except for upgrading all computers to XP...). Using 100Mb NICs and TCP/IP, I get at most 2.1MB/s for a file copy from a WinXP machine to a Win98SE machine, and at most 1.25MB/s from Win98SE to XP when the...
