My Internet ISP counts the download/upload usage as following:
1 Kilobyte = 1000 bytes
1 Megabyte = 1000 Kilobytes
Is there any simple method to let "Gargoyle" counts the Internet usage in a similar way?
Megabyte Value
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Re: Megabyte Value
There's (currently) no simple way to do this.
The assumption that 1024 bytes = 1kb is fairly standard... except in any context where reporting a power of 10 (1000bytes =1kb) will save a company money and let them get away with labeling a product as having more storage /bandwidth capacity than it really does. ISPs and hard drive manufacturers are the biggest offenders.
Changing this would require changes in a whole bunch of places. I would really like to keep this consistent throughout Gargoyle, but it might be possible to implement a box in the bandwidth monitor and/or quota to explicitly tell it how to format the output.
I may or may not get around to this before the 1.0 release, but I appreciate your suggestion and will likely get to it eventually.
The assumption that 1024 bytes = 1kb is fairly standard... except in any context where reporting a power of 10 (1000bytes =1kb) will save a company money and let them get away with labeling a product as having more storage /bandwidth capacity than it really does. ISPs and hard drive manufacturers are the biggest offenders.
Changing this would require changes in a whole bunch of places. I would really like to keep this consistent throughout Gargoyle, but it might be possible to implement a box in the bandwidth monitor and/or quota to explicitly tell it how to format the output.
I may or may not get around to this before the 1.0 release, but I appreciate your suggestion and will likely get to it eventually.
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Gargoyle87
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Re: Megabyte Value
Thanks very much Eric for your reply, and I hope that you will be able to add this option (changing the megabyte value) before the 1.0 release. At the meantime, I am using the calculator to set my quotas accurately.