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From: ArarghMail912NOSPAM on 27 Dec 2009 14:08
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:55:31 -0500, Rich Webb
<bbew.ar(a)mapson.nozirev.ten> wrote:

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>The more cynical among us may contend that usage depends on marketing.

IMO, 'contend' should be 'believe'. :-)

And I think that the world would be a lot better off if most marketing
types (along with a few other groups) suffered the fate of "The
marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation". :-)

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From: karthikbalaguru on 28 Dec 2009 10:08
On Dec 27, 3:24 am, Jeff Liebermann <je...(a)cruzio.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:45:10 +0000, alexd <troffa...(a)hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >On second thoughts, two different types of iperf floating around the
> >internet could lead to much confusion when trying to compare speed test
> >results.
>
> Well, since he's apparently benchmarking some device, it must mean he
> actually has something working.  There's hope, methinks, maybe.
>
> Perhaps it would be more appropriate to ask on the iPerf mailing list:
> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iperf-users>
>
> Oh, he already posted a question and got a mostly wrong answer.  Oh
> well.
>

Okay, i posted it to iPerf mailing list.
Pls find the responses in the below link -
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=3e17ce20912270851g349ad1a7rfbdd76101f969b90%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=iperf-users

> Pretend I didn't mention IEC 60027-2 A.2 which uses kibi, mebi, and
> gibi bytes.
> <http://members.optus.net/alexey/prefBin.xhtml>
> <http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html>
>
> However, he wanted to know why iPerf did it both ways.  

Yes !

> The first
> version of iPerf was scribbled in May 2001.  The ISO released the
> binary prefix standards in 1998, which are generally ignored by the
> industry to this day.  Until the failure to use kibi, mebi, and gibi
> bytes is made an international crime punishable by being forced to
> read the entire standard from cover to cover, the choice of prefixes
> are those of the author.
>

Okay, this seems reasonable !
Maybe, if iPerf sticks to one convention, it would be better.

Karthik Balaguru
From: alexd on 29 Dec 2009 04:48
Meanwhile, at the alt.internet.wireless Job Justification Hearings,
karthikbalaguru chose the tried and tested strategy of:

> Maybe, if iPerf sticks to one convention, it would be better.

I think it would be nice if it printed both types of output, to keep pedants
happy :-)

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From: Nobody on 29 Dec 2009 12:10
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 03:24:29 -0800, Bob wrote:

> For disk drives the magnetic recording medium is linear, so the block
> size and cylinder/head/sector addressing can be arbitrary and not
> based on powers of 2. For convenience, the sector size is chosen to be
> a power of 2 to match how memory is arranged. Whether the overall
> storage size of a disk is quoted in SI or K is down to preference, but
> the manufacturers prefer the standard SI units.

Except for floppy drives, where they split the difference and use
1024*1000-byte megabytes (e.g. 1.44MB = 1440 * 1024 bytes).

From: dold on 1 Jan 2010 17:55
In alt.internet.wireless Jeff Liebermann <jeffl(a)cruzio.com> wrote:
> For some entertainment value, try TTCP:
> <http://www.pcausa.com/Utilities/pcattcp.htm>
> and see how the results compare.

One of my customers used something called BRICKS, a GUI thing that was
proprietary to some networking company.

It defaulted to UDP, leading to some performance numbers that the customer
wanted to see matched by the production data which was running TCP.

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