From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jan 18 22:53:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from tardis.patho.gen.nz (tardis.patho.gen.nz [203.97.2.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B086815116 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:53:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jabley@tardis.patho.gen.nz) Received: (from jabley@localhost) by tardis.patho.gen.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA17638; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 19:53:16 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 19:53:16 +1300 From: Joe Abley To: David Wolfskill Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, xiyuan@yahoo.com Subject: Re: net speed Message-ID: <20000119195314.A4167@patho.gen.nz> References: <20000118033637.5783.qmail@web2106.mail.yahoo.com> <200001180417.UAA73885@pau-amma.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200001180417.UAA73885@pau-amma.whistle.com>; from dhw@whistle.com on Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 08:17:24PM -0800 X-Files: the Truth is Out There Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 08:17:24PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > First, I would contend that "speed" (as such) is not a very meaningful > term with respect to networks. Indeed, your query relates to that lack > of meaningfulness, as the text below should show. > > There are a couple of different (but related) ways to refer to how fast > data gets from its source to its destination. The relevant terms are > "latency" and "bandwidth". Absent a fair amount of context, determining > which is meant can be challenging. And "jitter" and "loss". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message