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Old 04-13-2012, 09:53 AM  
raymor
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Originally Posted by DamianJ View Post
I thought a gig was a thousand meg. But I get confused easily.
A MB (megabyte) is 8 Mb (megabits). The connection is 1024 Mbps (mega BITS), or 1024 / 8 megabytes. That's signaling rate. With two bits overhead, it can transfer about 1024 / 10 MB per second. So Gigabit = 100 megabytes per second max.
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