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Traffic Meter explanation
Hello to anyone who might be able to help explain,
On my traffic meter it reads that I used 43,479MB for Upload and 1.54174e+06MB for Download. How does this read out in Gigabytes/Terabytes? I haven't ever seen a computer data count that had a letter involved.
> [...] So you are saying 11.4 GB or 11.4 TB... [...]
No. 1.5e+06 = 1.5*(10^6) = 1500000 =
"one point five times ten to the sixth"
With the units, 1.5e+06MB = 1500000MB = 1500GB = 1.5TB."one point five to the sixth" = 1.5^6 =
1.5 * 1.5 * 1.5 * 1.5 * 1.5 * 1.5 = 11.4, a different number. The
"11.4" is what you're saying if you read it wrong.
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So, thanks for the link. It looks like over 1.5 TB. Is that my understanding? I see now that the "e" is exponent and ty for the clarification. My time has mostly been in the military...so when I see "e" it threw me off until I looked at the link.
> [...] It looks like over 1.5 TB. Is that my understanding? [...]
I don't know if it's _yours_, but that's how _I_ interpret it.
> [...] the "e" is exponent [...]
That's the origin, but note that it should be read as "times ten to
the <whatever> power", _not_ as "to the <whatever> power", which you
might hear from the ill-informed). That is, your value is about "one
point five times ten to the sixth", not "one point five to the sixth"
(which would be about 11.4). The "ten" is implicit.
What's the firmware version on your R7800?
After many moans, Netgear upgraded the meter on some devices so that it could cope with larger numbers as people move into Tbyte territory. No need then to get into scientific notation.
Firmware Version - V1.0.2.68
