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dfaust / plasma-applet-netspeed-widget

Plasma 5 widget that displays the currently used network bandwidth
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Network speeds seem be multiplied by update interval #42

Closed ddceca closed 10 months ago

ddceca commented 10 months ago

I had update interval set to 2 seconds, and today I noticed that my download speed was unusually high. After doing some tests and comparing with other network speed measuring methods, it seems to me that the speeds reported by Netspeed Widget are possibly multiplied by the update interval.

For example: download a large file (I'm doing these tests with a kubuntu iso) which gives you a somewhat constant speed. In my case, it's about 2.3 MB/s. So, if I set the update interval to 10 seconds, I get a reported speed of about 23 MB/s.

I have Netspeed Widget 1.9 in: Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20231006 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 Kernel Version: 6.5.4-1-default (64-bit)

dfaust commented 10 months ago
  1. The data source has been completely rewritten in version 2.0 so you should update to that version.
  2. When opening the settings dialog - for some reason I haven't figured out, yet - the speed unit setting is automatically set to bits. So you may want to change that to bytes.
ddceca commented 10 months ago

Thank you, I hadn't noticed there was a 2.0 version. I can confirm that, indeed, the problem I was reporting is solved with the new data source.

BTW, I'm not seeing the bytes -> bits problem. Every time I open the settings, the speed unit set to bytes is remembered correctly.

dfaust commented 10 months ago

BTW, I'm not seeing the bytes -> bits problem

Thanks, good to know.