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Old 26-04-2012, 16:03   #1744
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq View Post
And back in the old days, that's what speed meant, not through some silly web page with a flash based speedtest app. A 100mb port will happily exceed 97mbps of IP throughput.

Go read this: https://kb.doit.wisc.edu/wiscnet/page.php?id=11778

You'll see that you lose 5.2% of bandwidth due to headers. Your 100Mbit ethernet will only ever be able to transfer TCP/IP data at a maximum of 94.8Mbit no matter what you do.
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