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Bandwidth estimation is wrong

Bandwidth estimation is wrong. 100 TB / 86400 is roughly 115 Mb/s NOT 926 Mb/s


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Hi Sandesh!
The mentioned bandwidth estimation is right. May be you’re missing the conversion of Bytes(B) to bits(b). Here’s the detailed description of the conversion above:

1TB = 1,000,000MB
1B = 8bits
80,000,000/86400 ≈ 926 Mb/s

Hope it helps. If you still have any confusion, please let us know.
Thank you!

Yup, I was missing the conversion. Thanks for correcting me, I was not aware of the Bytes = B and bits = b convention.
Cheers!
-Sandesh Paudel