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Fort Firewall for Windows
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Feature request: traffic graph update rate / averaging interval + unit of measure #270

Open Redundanz opened 3 days ago

Redundanz commented 3 days ago

Hi,

currently Fort Firewall has replaced the combination of TMeter & Simplewall for me because it elegantly combines both uses - a local traffic limiter as well as a powerful application-based firewall. The only thing that I am missing is an option to change the averaging interval of the traffic graph or at least the update rate (at least up to 30-60s) so it can make streaming bandwidth usage more presentable instead of a graph spikes jumping up and down to 0 because of most services like Youtube downloading chunks in bursts.

So I additionally use "Net Traffic Portable" as a standalone traffic graph tool just for that. Example graph attached. Every column represents an averaging over 10 seconds.

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It would be good if there were options available to smoothen the Fort Firewall graph to custom intervals and also choose between bit/byte/iByte basis for the dynamic scaling but possibly even choose all-time fixed unit of measure (i.e. MiB/s , KiB/s, MB/s, KB/s, Mbit/s, Kbit/s...). Currently it is always in *bps which is not an optimal human readable unit to have a feeling for.

If something like that, in accordance to your preferred design, is feasible for you to do. Thanks!