# IPFire Bandwidth Usage

**URL:** <https://community.ipfire.org/t/ipfire-bandwidth-usage/1203>\
**Category:** Network\
**Created:** [9 February 2020 13:15 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/ipfire-bandwidth-usage/1203 "2020-02-09T13:15:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![kaila](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/kaila/32/345_2.png) [@kaila](https://community.ipfire.org/u/kaila)\
**Post date:** [9 February 2020 13:15 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/ipfire-bandwidth-usage/1203/1 "2020-02-09T13:15:16Z")

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I need to know if IPFire gives bandwidth use. If It does, how much is that?  
Also, do we need any routers or servers to work with IPFire?

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**Author:** ![hvacguy](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/hvacguy/32/8576_2.png) [@hvacguy](https://community.ipfire.org/u/hvacguy)\
**Post date:** [9 February 2020 17:33 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/ipfire-bandwidth-usage/1203/2 "2020-02-09T17:33:24Z")

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There is a lot of logging and nice grafhs

 ![image](https://community.ipfire.org/uploads/default/original/1X/2b4321da5b781a3e624ed4b5e448aac892e5b4ad.png)

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**Author:** ![datamorgana](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/datamorgana/32/16491_2.png) [@datamorgana](https://community.ipfire.org/u/datamorgana)\
**Post date:** [12 October 2020 14:28 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/ipfire-bandwidth-usage/1203/3 "2020-10-12T14:28:11Z")

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Following up to that question: How do I change the unit in the displayed graphs from MBps to Mbps? Since the IPFire box is the only system in my network that is displaying bandwidth in megaBYTE per second as opposed to megaBIT per second, I’d like to change that for convenience reasons…

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**Author:** ![pike\_it](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/pike_it/32/16425_2.png) [@pike\_it](https://community.ipfire.org/u/pike_it)\
**Post date:** [12 October 2020 15:48 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/ipfire-bandwidth-usage/1203/4 "2020-10-12T15:48:18Z")

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Interesting question… maybe the dev team will allow us to choose the wanted data measure… (or not…)  
Because this seems a feature to me…

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**Author:** ![nateso49](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/nateso49/32/3520_2.png) [@nateso49](https://community.ipfire.org/u/nateso49)\
**Post date:** [24 May 2021 04:40 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/ipfire-bandwidth-usage/1203/5 "2021-05-24T04:40:45Z")

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The Bps has been bugging me for years. I have personal hacked it for myself, but now decided to try and share and help display the graphs properly. I have created and submitted, [PATCH] Network based RRD graphs Bytes to Bits, to the dev list.

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**Author:** ![cybermaze](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/cybermaze/32/7265_2.png) [@cybermaze](https://community.ipfire.org/u/cybermaze)\
**Post date:** [24 May 2021 07:22 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/ipfire-bandwidth-usage/1203/6 "2021-05-24T07:22:32Z")

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There is 8 bits to a byte, so 1 megabyte = 8 megabits. In short: megabytes multiplied by 8 gives megabits.

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**Author:** ![bbitsch](https://community.ipfire.org/user_avatar/community.ipfire.org/bbitsch/32/7420_2.png) [@bbitsch](https://community.ipfire.org/u/bbitsch)\
**Post date:** [24 May 2021 19:33 UTC](https://community.ipfire.org/t/ipfire-bandwidth-usage/1203/7 "2021-05-24T19:33:18Z")

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I’ve tested your changes for the QoS and network graphs.  
They seem to function.