[pve-devel] network card MBit/s vs MB/s

[Dietmar Maurer]

> > We talk about network card speed limit.
> > At network level, you need to transfer parity and stop bits, ethernet
> headers, ...
> >
> > So you need more the 8 bits to transfer one byte!
> 
> Yes but you also have the same overhead using MB/s so it doesn't matter.
> 
> 100Mbit/s => you can transfer around 12,5MB/s => that's a factor of 8.
> Just try it ;-)

Well, that is confusing to me - I prefer bytes, because that is well defined.

Anyway, what about the idea to implement a widget where you can select the unit?