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Pragma · 07-23-2003, 03:13 PM

Vanquish: What the 10Mbit/sec means is that you have a 10Mbit connection to your room.

What ends up happening is that you're on a hub with several other people (probably 24, but maybe as few as 12). The school (unless it's a small one) undoubtedly has a SONET connection running into the building. A T-1 is only 1.54Mbit/second, so your dorm connection (10Mbit) is superior to that.

3Mbit/sec is 384KB/sec theoretical max, a T-1 only gets 197.12KB/sec. Just to update your figures.

07-23-2003, 03:13 PM	#21 (permalink)
Pragma I am Winter Born Location: Alexandria, VA	Vanquish: What the 10Mbit/sec means is that you have a 10Mbit connection to your room. What ends up happening is that you're on a hub with several other people (probably 24, but maybe as few as 12). The school (unless it's a small one) undoubtedly has a SONET connection running into the building. A T-1 is only 1.54Mbit/second, so your dorm connection (10Mbit) is superior to that. 3Mbit/sec is 384KB/sec theoretical max, a T-1 only gets 197.12KB/sec. Just to update your figures. __________________ Eat antimatter, Posleen-boy!