Re: Transfer vs. Bandwidth

[Marc Herbert <marc.herbert --at-- free.fr>]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Matthew Paul Bohnsack wrote:

> > The confusion arises because iperf is following the common usage and
> > converting the definition of "mega" when going from measurement of
> > storage to communication.

> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte
>

> [ ID] Interval       Transfer      Bandwidth
> [  3]  0.0-10.0 sec  96.0 MiBytes  80.4 Mbits/sec
>                           ^^
>
> See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
>
> Using this standard might help clear up this confusion.
>

And by the way, the words "bandwidth" and "byte" are also abused.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth#Digital
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte

Poor us :-)

PS: before people flame me, I must admit these don't create any
confusion in this context.



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