PlugaruT / wingpanel-monitor

System Monitor Indicator for Wingpanel
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Network speed shown is higher than actual data transfer rate #38

Closed vjr closed 3 years ago

vjr commented 3 years ago

If you run a speed test on websites like fast.com or speedtest.net and compare the speeds shown on the website versus the speed shown by this indicator, we observe that the indicator shows a higher number, around 30% more by casual visual inspection.

This could be likely due to the network service reading bytes transferred which might include the entire packet size which is the actual data payload size plus the packet header size.