Add ability to show speed and data unit in bit rather than bytes

[Digitalone1]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues.

Describe the solution you'd like

As the title says, most of the times internet data rates are reported in multiples of bit/s. If it's possible, an option can be added to switch between bytes and bits unit for both speed and traffic amount labels.

Is your feature request related to a problem?

No response

[GyulyVGC]

Of course making it configurable to switch between bytes and bits would be the most complete solution, but I think it'd add something that most of the users are not interested in, going against Sniffnet's simplicity principles.

Despite you're completely right in saying that traffic rate is usually reported in bit/s, it's more common to report cumulative data in bytes. So, I had to make a decision on which unit to use.

Anyway I'm open to consider introducing this possibility in case more users express positive feedback for this request (further ideas are also welcomed!).

[gabrielecabrini]

I would like to have a bit/s option

[GyulyVGC]

It's coming with the next version of Sniffnet 😁

[shu-kitamura]

@GyulyVGC

Hello!
I'm going to try to solve this issue.

Currently, the Data representation in the Overview page has bytes and packets.
I think it would be good to add bits to there.

I have a question about display Bytes and Bits in the Inspect page.
My question is about the area outlined in red in the image below.

I think it would be best to do it like below:

• If bytes or packets is selected in Data representation, display a Bytes column and the number of bytes.
• If bits is selected in Data representation, display a Bits column and the number of bits.
  Are you on the same page?

[Digitalone1]

You can also rename the column with Amount. Then use B for bytes and b for bits as unit.

[GyulyVGC]

Hi @shu-kitamura thank you for your interest in implementing this.

However, I already have some plans for this feature, and this is the reason why I self-assigned this issue to me.

To answer your question, I will only display the column for the selected data representation (packets / bytes / bits), so the two current columns will just be merged into a single one.

There are other caveats with this feature, hence I prefer personally taking care of it.

[shu-kitamura]

Thanks for the replies.

I think your idea is great. I also understand that you're working on this by yourself.

I'll take a look at the other issues and see if there's anything I'm interested in.

[GyulyVGC]

Thanks. You can give a look at unassigned issues, or those with the "help wanted" label.