[mrtg] Re: Total bandwidth usage and My BIG problem

[Christopher E. Brown]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Frank Keeney wrote:

> On another note. I was just called by my Co-location ISP (to remain
> anonymous for now) they told me I have used 9.1 gigs of bandwidth this
> month(!) and they are going to charge me up the wazoo. All for three lightly
> used domains. My analog reports show less than 5 gigs of outbound transfer
> total for the last six months. Needless to say we have a big dispute.
> 
> They claim to be using MRTG to calculate my utilization by multiplying the
> averages and coming up with my total two way transfer amount. I don't think
> there is any way that this could be accurate at all. They've told me that
> they are going to send me their formula for this calculation, I can't wait.

	Eh?  If they took the straight average from the monthly
graph they could come up with somthing moderatly close like


	(average_kbit / 8) * 60 * 60 * 24 / 1024 = Mbytes/Day
	Mbytes * Days = Approx Total transfer

repeat for other direction, example on a 256K link in my network


92.9 /  * 60 * 60 * 24 / 1024 * 31 = 30373.945 / 1024 = 29.662056 Gbyte Inbound Transfer


	The figure is only a guestamate though and I would never use
it for billing.


BTW:  They do know the difference between GigaBits and GigaBytes
right? (9.1GigaBits = 1.375GigaByte)



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