[mrtg] Re: Which is correct, bits or Bytes? - Throughput

Alex van den Bogaerdt alex at slot.hollandcasino.nl
Fri Feb 23 17:05:05 MET 2001


Alan Rader wrote:
> 
> Well, I posted a question trying to figure out how to get mrtg to show me
> total BW throughput.  I know they all convert and say the same thing, but I
> feel they are over charging me because of this.  Say my average usage is
> 196kbits by them, then they are calculating with that and not converting it
> to bytes and then saying I am doing xxGB/day which is Gigabyte and not
> gigabits.

Hmm...  I'm not sure if it is official that you should write b for bits
and B for bytes.

What if they should really charge you per gigabit?  I mean, what if you did
sign a contract saying you should pay per kilobit/megabit whatever.

It is not uncommon to do so, you know.

cheers,
Alex

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