Now that helps a lot! OK, so my original question was if this was normal? (You know how it goes, always looking for issues). It appears the answer is that it is normal and legit. Thanks!
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Bill Prince < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. >>>>>> >>>>>> Josh Luthman >>>>>>> Office: 937-552-2340 >>>>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343 >>>>>>> 1100 Wayne St >>>>>>> Suite 1337 >>>>>>> Troy, OH 45373 >>>>>>> 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%)? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> -RickG KyWiFi >>>>>>>> -------------- next part -------------- >>>>>>>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>>>>>>> URL: < >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> http://mail.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/ >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> attachments/20140322/e0e746f6/attachment.html >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Mikrotik mailing list >>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>> http://mail.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >>>>>>>> RouterOS >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -------------- next part -------------- >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>>>>>> URL: < >>>>>>> http://mail.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/ >>>>>>> attachments/20140322/4c9f3f0b/attachment.html >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Mikrotik mailing list >>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>> http://mail.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >>>>>>> RouterOS >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> >>>>> Mikrotik mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://mail.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>>>> >>>>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >>>>> RouterOS >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>> Scott Reed >>> Owner >>> NewWays Networking, LLC >>> Wireless Networking >>> Network Design, Installation and Administration >>> Mikrotik Advanced Certified >>> www.nwwnet.net >>> (765) 855-1060 (765) 439-4253 Toll-free (855) 231-6239 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mikrotik mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>> >>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik >>> RouterOS >>> >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > -- -RickG KyWiFi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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