On 5/31/07, askthelist@gmail.com <askthelist@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Anyone know the maximum packets per second that can traverse a 100MB
> internet link. From what I've been able to gather its about 8300 or so? Is
> this number accurate? Do connections just start to timeout once I hit this
> limit? I'm a little worried about this because we are fast approaching this
> mark and am afraid were gonna hit it before we max out are available
> bandwidth? Anyone ever run into this situation or am I just paranoid?

well, 8300 x 1500 x 8 = 99.6mbit. congratulations. And yes,
when you saturate a interface with more packets than it
can transmit you will.....be out of bandwidth. btw, If you were
looking for google its at google.com.