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... -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
