Effective Throughput of Ethernet
e.g., using an editor over Ethernet, where every character must be remotely echoed
- 1 character per frame, assume light traffic
- min frame length = 56 + 8 + 48 + 48 + 16 + 512 + 32 = 720 bits
- packet spacing = 96 bits?
- total = 816 bits for every 7 bit ascii character sent
- effective throughput < 1 % = ~ 100 kb/ s
- will be worse with heavy traffic & collisions!
- will be better as data size increases