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Originally Posted by RainmakerRaw
That's the way it was explained to me, I didn't question it because I don't know any better.
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Then it was explained wrong. Horrendously wrong. My apologies to you, however whoever explained it to you needs to be bashed over the head. Or perhaps has already been bashed over the head a few times too many.
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If you'd care to explain where the 'missing' ~5Mbps goes to give a maximum throughput of ~95Mbps I'd love to hear it. There's no need to be rude.
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TCP/IP and Ethernet overheads.
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Originally Posted by Kushan
Overheads, just not the overheads you mentioned. Qas can probably explain it in better detail than I can, but the data being transferred has to be wrapped into packets (At the TCP/IP level) and frames (at the Ethernet level). Think about it like sending a letter through the post - you can't just shove it in a letter box, you have pop it in an enveloper which will add a small amount of weight to the thing. You also need to write the address on it and when it comes to communication, the address of the receiving machine also takes up precious bytes. That all adds up.
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I think he understands overheads, he just used random words that were unrelated to fact. It's like saying "A 2 hour flight takes longer than 2 hours because tickets and waking up in the morning" when he really means "A 2 hour flight takes longer than 2 hours because of airport security and passport control."
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Originally Posted by General Maximus
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/me bashes General Maximus over the head with his Cisco certification papers.