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** Changed in: gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

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Title:
  system monitor uses incorrect network speed (throughput) units

Status in The GNOME System Monitor:
  Fix Released
Status in “gnome-system-monitor” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor

  Network monitor uses incorrect units for showing network throughput.
  It uses MiB/sec, KiB/sec and so on.

  http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
  Examples and comparisons with SI prefixes
  one kibibit 	 1 Kibit = 2^10 bit = 1024 bit
  one kilobit 	 1 kbit = 10^3 bit = 1000 bit
  one mebibyte 	 1 MiB = 2^20 B = 1 048 576 B
  one megabyte 	 1 MB = 10^6 B = 1 000 000 B
  one gibibyte 	 1 GiB = 2^30 B = 1 073 741 824 B
  one gigabyte 	 1 GB = 10^9 B = 1 000 000 000 B

  Specifying network throughput in some units of bytes/sec is incorrect.
  The network throughput should always specified in some units of
  bits/sec (kbits,mbits per second). The speed of downloading a file may
  be specified in KiB/sec. is's OK, but not for netowrk device
  throughput. Please fix. At least add option into preferences...

  mmarkk@mmarkk-ubuntu:~$ LANG=C lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 8.10
  Release:	8.10

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
  Package: gnome-system-monitor 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
   PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-system-monitor
  Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

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