Thread: file IO speed over network

Originally Posted by CommonTater

At least on windows the filesize reported from the network is powers of 2... and since that's the size of the buffer you need intermediate math, regardless of how well contrived, isn't going to be very helpful.

That may well be, because the system wants to be consistent in reporting file sizes and those should be measured in memory units. But WRT to networking, a megabit is considered to be exactly 1 000 000 bits. Not 1024 kB (which is 5% more). So when you see speeds reported as "100 Mbits/sec", that's what it is -- there is no ambiguity.

Why do people always have to complicate things so much... You get a file size of 12412322 you need a buffer size of 12412322... and, guess what, they designed it that way for our convenience.

Yeah, a byte is a byte is a byte. I was just being a stickler.