You could have 10,000 vehicles traveling south and 1,000 vehicles traveling north. Some vehicles may be motorcycles, some may be Mega Buses.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "RickG" <[email protected]> To: "Mikrotik discussions" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 5:50:03 PM Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Download Bytes versus Upload Bytes & Download Packets versus Upload Packets 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 > -- -RickG KyWiFi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20140323/bdc380c3/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/20140324/6b4e0bfc/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
