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From: lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Ethernet collisions
Keywords: LANalyzer Ethernet
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.181458.19557@comm.wang.com>
Date: 20 Dec 90 18:14:58 GMT
References: <467@pirates.UUCP> <2184@cybaswan.UUCP>
Organization: Wang Labs, Platform Comms.
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iiitih@cybaswan.UUCP (Ivan Izikowitz) writes:

>If you don't think you have a faulty card, then you probably have a 
>heavily loaded network. Just take a look at any of the published

Right.

>performance curves for the 802.3 protocol - throughput is severely
>degraded once the offered load exceeds a certain value (I think about
>40% of channel capacity?)

Rong.   Yeah, a lot of the papers say that, but they're talking
about the entire load evenly distributed over the entire network.
And even then, they cite figures of 65% of capacity.  I routinely
see usage approaching 90% with very little trouble  (admittedly,
an unusual LAN configuration, as well).

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