OK Dickwad... what I am saying is, if its a cluster of 30 Blades with Gig NICs... it will perform better than someone with a 10/100 on a old dell in their basement. thus a "server" having more capabilities.
you know some of us actually try to speak in a manner that everyone else will understand. we don't have to try and sound smart being all specific.

ie: we are talking to a user.
this is why I hate helping people.
it brings out the "I'm Smarter than you!" douchebags

Piss up a rope

/out

Quote Originally Posted by cfortune View Post
I understand the difference between bandwidth and latency. I don't see what you're trying to prove here, spouting off a bunch of routing metrics.

LOL @ Server capabilities. What does that even mean? If you're referring to server resources, I think you'd be hard up to find a server that's network traffic is going to actually peg the CPU or start an unacceptable amount of memory paging. Unless of course that traffic is spawning database queries or other intensive processes, which isn't the case with a speed test.


And you're totally nuts if you think latency doesn't affect your transfer rate or "throughput". It doesn't however have anything to do with bandwidth, which a speed test doesn't measure.