[pve-devel] network card MBit/s vs MB/s

[Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG]

Am 18.02.2013 09:39, schrieb Dietmar Maurer:
>>> We talk about network card speed limit.
>>> At network level, you need to transfer parity and stop bits, ethernet
>> headers, ...
>>>
>>> So you need more the 8 bits to transfer one byte!
>>
>> Yes but you also have the same overhead using MB/s so it doesn't matter.
>>
>> 100Mbit/s => you can transfer around 12,5MB/s => that's a factor of 8.
>> Just try it ;-)
> 
> Well, that is confusing to me - I prefer bytes, because that is well defined.
> 
> Anyway, what about the idea to implement a widget where you can select the unit?

Yes i'll have a look at the ExtJS documentation.

Stefan