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

[Chairman of the Bored]

At 05:05 PM 2/23/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>
>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.

umm. that's how the rest of the world looks at it...?

>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.

yeah. i caught digital nation with that..
-dd

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