4 Jan
2007
4 Jan
'07
7:30 a.m.
On Thursday 04 January 2007 12:48, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
iftop shows 37 kbps and mtnl meter shows 285.91 - aha, found the culprit. When iftop is run to show kilobits per second instead of kilobytes per second, then the numbers are the same as MTNL. So is broadband kiloBITS or kiloBYTES?
you mean to say iftop shows 37KBps ( KiloBytes/s ) and MTNL meter shows 285.91Kbps ( Kilobits/s ). So iftop says your connection speed is 296Kbps ( note the small b ) while MTNL says its 286Kbps. Not much difference. iftop still more accurate :P
BTW broadband speeds are always specified in bits and not bytes...
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Regards,
Dinesh A. Joshi