custodian
commented
9 years ago All values are bytes divided by 1000, what should be used?
Top right corner shows data depending on graph type: current, average(no such graphs are present yet) or total.
Open Self-Perfection opened 9 years ago
custodian
commented
9 years ago All values are bytes divided by 1000, what should be used?
Top right corner shows data depending on graph type: current, average(no such graphs are present yet) or total.
Self-Perfection
commented
9 years ago All values are bytes divided by 1000, what should be used?
Ok, here is quick cheat sheet for power of 10 data amount units:
| Amount | Name | Unit symbol |
|---|---|---|
| 1000 bits | kilobit | kbit or kb |
| 1000 bytes | kilobyte | kB |
| 10^6 bits | megabit | Mbit or Mb |
| 10^6 bytes | megabyte | MB |
| 10^9 bits | gigabit | Gbit or GB |
| 10^9 bytes | gigabyte | GB |
and for data rate units:
| Amount | Name | Unit symbol |
|---|---|---|
| 1000 bits per second | kilobit per second | kbit/s or kb/s |
| 1000 bytes per second | kilobyte per second | kB/s |
| 10^6 bits per second | megabit per second | Mbit/s or Mb/s |
| 10^6 bytes per second | megabyte per second | MB/s |
Top right corner shows data depending on graph type: current, average(no such graphs are present yet) or total.
There really should be some notice to indicate which mode is used for current graph. For example:
For example
Graph is labeled "Mb", lowercase "b" thus it should show values in megabits, but actual values looks like it is megabytes. This mistake is present in all graphs and settings page (size of stored history data).
Megabytes are abbreviated to MB (capital "B"). But please consider using mebibytes (MiB) for displaying data amount. You never know if "megabyte" is 10^6 bytes or 2^20 bytes. Mebibyte is always 2^20 bytes, no exceptions, no ambiguity.
Another problem is data rate measurement units.
I believe this graph shows not kilobits, but kilobits per second (correct abbreviations: kbit/s, kb/s or kbps). See data rate units in wikipedia for more info.
Considering all messed up values I am completely confused about numbers in top right corner of throughput graph. Is it kbps? kBps? kb? kB? Is it average / maximum rate? After a bit of exeperimenting (d'oh, this should be obvious from interface without investigation!) I've concluded that it is more likely total transferred data for displayed period of time. But I am still not sure if it is displayed as bits or bytes.