How many bits can be transfered through Ethernet at each time?

Question

I am writing a networking application. It has some unxpected lags. I need to calculate some figures but I cant find an information - how many bits can be transferes through Ethernet connection at each tick.

I know that the resulting transfer rate is 100Mbps/1Gbps. But ethernet should use hardware ticks to sync both ends I suppose. So it moves data in ticks.

So the question is how many ticks per second or how many bits per one tick used in ethernet.

The actual connection is 100 Mbps full-duplex.

Answer 1

I found the answer myself. Here is the article: http://discountcablesusa.com/ethernetcables.html

The first table says 100BaseTX has frequency 31.25MHz, the signal rate is 125Mb (25 is Ehternet overhead so we receive 100Mbit/s of "useful" data).

Hence 125/31.25 = 4bit per one transmition which is roughly the answer on my question.