Router statistics dumb question ...

Please can someone tell me .. what does the "B/s" bit mean in the headings
"Tx B/s" and Rx B/s" when I look at the statistics in my Netgear DG834
router?

B/s normally means Bytes per second

b/s normally beans bits per second

There are 8 bits to a Byte.

Alec


"Mike Faithfull" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Please can someone tell me .. what does the "B/s" bit mean in the headings
> "Tx B/s" and Rx B/s" when I look at the statistics in my Netgear DG834
> router?
>

not beans but means

Alec

"Alec" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> B/s normally means Bytes per second
>
> b/s normally beans bits per second
>
> There are 8 bits to a Byte.
>
> Alec
>
>
> "Mike Faithfull" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Please can someone tell me .. what does the "B/s" bit mean in the
>> headings "Tx B/s" and Rx B/s" when I look at the statistics in my Netgear
>> DG834 router?
>>
>
>

"Alec" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> not beans but means
>
> Alec
>

Beans Means Heinz?

Gaz

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 19:55:40 -0000, "Gaz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

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>"Alec" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> not beans but means
>>
>> Alec
>>
>
>Beans Means Heinz?
>
>Gaz
>


:-))

Gaz wrote:

> "Alec" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
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> > not beans but means
>
> Beans Means Heinz?

The best baked beans used to be Crosse and Blackwell but they cost more to make
so they stopped due to the 'baked beans war'. The current offering bearing that
brand name is rubbish though.

Graham

"Alec" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> B/s normally means Bytes per second
>
> b/s normally beans bits per second
>
> There are 8 bits to a Byte.
>
> Alec
>
>
> "Mike Faithfull" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:i6-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Please can someone tell me .. what does the "B/s" bit mean in the
>> headings "Tx B/s" and Rx B/s" when I look at the statistics in my Netgear
>> DG834 router?
>>

Er, ... so on a 100 Megabean LAN, it shows Tx B/s of 1290 and Rx B/s of 194
... and on the WAN connection which Speedtest says is 4340 Megabeans one way
and 381 t'other, it shows Tx B/s of 162 and Rx B/s of 1207 (unless I run
Speedtest again - which I've just done - and then the numbers change to 204
for Tx and 1584 for Rx, and 1679 and 243 on the LAN)

So if there are 8 bites per bean, I don't see the correlation between the
numbers. And it seems the longer the router spends sending and receiving
packets (I thought beans came in tins ...) the bigger the numbers get, but
if I'm sad enough to watch the stats screen refresh itself over a period of
a few minutes, the numbers slowly get smaller ........

Ahh .. ok .. got it, I think ... it's just calculating the number of beans
consumed in the time that the router has been connected, and while I'm
watching the screen refresh I'm not eating any, so the
beans-per-total-number-of-connected-seconds WILL decline ...

Netgear clearly makes exceedingly good routers (or cakes) ............

"Alec" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> B/s normally means Bytes per second
>
> b/s normally beans bits per second
>
> There are 8 bits to a Byte.
>
> Alec
>
>
> "Mike Faithfull" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:i6-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Please can someone tell me .. what does the "B/s" bit mean in the
>> headings "Tx B/s" and Rx B/s" when I look at the statistics in my Netgear
>> DG834 router?
>>

Er, ... so on a 100 Megabean LAN, it shows Tx B/s of 1290 and Rx B/s of 194
... and on the WAN connection which Speedtest says is 4340 Megabeans one way
and 381 t'other, it shows Tx B/s of 162 and Rx B/s of 1207 (unless I run
Speedtest again - which I've just done - and then the numbers change to 204
for Tx and 1584 for Rx, and 1679 and 243 on the LAN)

So if there are 8 bites per bean, I don't see the correlation between the
numbers. And it seems the longer the router spends sending and receiving
packets (I thought beans came in tins ...) the bigger the numbers get, but
if I'm sad enough to watch the stats screen refresh itself over a period of
a few minutes, the numbers slowly get smaller ........

Ahh .. ok .. got it, I think ... it's just calculating the number of beans
consumed in the time that the router has been connected, and while I'm
watching the screen refresh I'm not eating any, so the
beans-per-total-number-of-connected-seconds WILL decline ...

Netgear clearly makes exceedingly good routers (or cakes) ............

"Eeyore" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> Gaz wrote:
>
>> "Alec" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
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>> > not beans but means
>>
>> Beans Means Heinz?
>
> The best baked beans used to be Crosse and Blackwell but they cost more to
> make
> so they stopped due to the 'baked beans war'. The current offering bearing
> that
> brand name is rubbish though.
>
> Graham
>
Yes all well and good but how many beans per tin?

"Mike Faithfull" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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(Except when it sends messages twice ... obviously suffered a premature
whassname, sorry)