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juiceme is offline juiceme
2014-12-04 , 22:37
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
The current network protocols only create an illusion of multiple simultaneous communications, but in reality they are all of the kind of, "everyone shut up, I am talking to Fred", followed quickly by John shouting, "everyone shut up, I am talking to Mary". My method allows me to talk to Fred while John talks to Mary truly at the same time.
That used to be so in the eighties. It was called CSMA on ethernet and token passing on token rings.
However now all LAN's are switched with enough backplane capacity and it does not apply any longer. (unless you are still running on 10Base2 coax or TP with hubs?? )

One exception though, WLAN's are still running a kind of CSMA which explains why lots of terminals on same segment starve down bandwidth pretty quickly
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