Enhancement: [mega]bits vs. [mega]bytes

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Network-centric users may think in terms of bits vs. Bytes; network link speeds 
are usually referred to by [mega]bits-per-second vs [mega]Bytes-per-second.

How about a configurable option to display network speeds (up/download rates) 
in [whatever]bps vs. [whatever]Bps?

Caveat - file sizes and other fs-centric parts should remain in bytes (of 
course).

Using on Windows, if that is significant.  <3

Original issue reported on code.google.com by b...@bmj.net on 19 Jan 2015 at 4:01

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi, I wish the same enhancement which also was requested here 3 years ago:
Issue 564 "option to change units for transfer speed (from bytes/sec to 
bits/sec)"
so you created a duplicate I hope some programmer will find this challenge this 
year

I suggested an similar Issue related to the displayed unit:
Issue 611 "Change GB to GiB"

Original comment by krisch...@gmx.de on 5 Feb 2015 at 8:54