Think of packets as the vehicles (buses, cars, motorcycles). Bytes as
the people inside.
One direction (download) is MOSTLY buses with 50 people aboard.
The other direction (upload) is MOSTLY motorcycles with one person aboard.
Not real life I realize, but it illustrates the point.
You can have the same number of packets (vehicles) going in each
direction, but the number of people going on buses is going to be far
more than the number of people taking motorcycles.
bp
On 3/23/2014 3:50 PM, RickG wrote:
OK, it's still confusing to me so here is an analogy of how I'm looking at
it: You have a 10,000 cars that travel south (download) through a tunnel
per day and 1,000 travel through it north (upload) = (10:1). Those cars
carry anywhere from 1-4 people (packets) (lol, no minivans allowed). If the
average number of people per vehicle is 2 then you have 20,000 people
traveling south, and 2,000 people traveling north (10:1). Therefore the
ratio of packets should be fairly close to the ratio of bytes. Where does
this scenario go wrong?
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Scott Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
When your packet size ratio is 10:1 (see Josh's post) then you get 10
bytes down for each byte up in each packet pair. Also, since packet size
is variable the ratios can change over time.
Since UDP data does not require an ACK response, the ratio of TCP/UDP data
will make a difference in both your packet and data ratios.
On 3/22/2014 11:10 PM, RickG wrote:
So I really am comparing apples to oranges then...
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Bill Prince <
[email protected]> wrote:
Upload packets are typically smaller. So the byte counts dl/ul might be
10:1. But if there are fewer bytes in each packet on the upload, the
dl/ul
packet ratio could easily be 10:7.
bp
On 3/22/2014 7:43 PM, RickG wrote:
I'm confused as to what size has to do with it. The counters are
quantities, correct?
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Josh Luthman
<[email protected]>wrote:
Size of packets.
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On Mar 22, 2014 10:30 PM, "RickG" <[email protected]> wrote:
Anyone have any ideas why my network would only have a 10:1 (10%)
download
byte / upload byte ratio yet the packet ratio is 10:7 (70%)?
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