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by XelNika 1478 days ago
> Performance topped out at 111 MiB/s (931 Mbps), which is suspiciously close to 1 Gbps.

That's because of overhead in TCP over IPv4. You're testing the payload throughput, not the physical throughput. The theoretical maximum performance without jumbo frames is around 95%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo_frame#Bandwidth_efficien...

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Ah, good to know. Thanks!