Thread: 100M Network Card query
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Old 12-08-2014, 11:46   #3
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Re: Network Card query

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Originally Posted by rhyds View Post
The short answer is that TCP/IP network connections have "overheads" which use up about 20% of the available bandwidth. Therefore at full chat your 100mbit network card will only be able to provide 80mbit actual data throughput.
thanks - I never realized that before.
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