BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45

Re:BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45 by wyager on Friday May 03, 2013 @01:10AM (#5648920)

Is the Ethernet PHY connected to the main processor over USB or something faster/more efficient? One of my biggest complaints about the Raspberry Pi is that the Ethernet is capped at a few dozen mbps, presumably due to constraints associated with USB.

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Re:BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45 by ChuckMcM on Friday May 03, 2013 @01:49AM (#5649025)

Ethernet is built into the SOC [1] and brought out to a phy. It can do gigabit Ethernet. With the wireless dongle in the USB plug it was doing 10.5MB/sec (megabytes per second) according to scp.

[1] http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/am3358.pdf

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Re:BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45 by mansr on Friday May 03, 2013 @10:57AM (#5650412)

Note that the BeagleBone has a 100Mbps phy.

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Re:BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45 by vardump on Friday May 03, 2013 @04:47AM (#5649415)

Maybe there's something wrong with your Raspberry Pi, all of mine do over 90 Mbit/s downloads over ethernet without any problems.

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Re:BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45 by eliasmacpherson on Friday May 03, 2013 @05:28AM (#5649485)

he probably means MBps.

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Re:BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45 by wyager on Saturday May 04, 2013 @12:50AM (#5654043)

Nope, mine don't seem to go higher than around 6MBps (48mbps) on a good day. Edit: That was with one of the first models. My new one seems to hit about 75mbps.

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Re:BeagleBone Black: A 1-GHz computer for $45 by wyager on Saturday May 04, 2013 @12:55AM (#5654057)

Using iperf (i.e. pretty ideal conditions) I peak at around 75Mbit/sec on a latest-generation Pi.

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