[Bug 15436] Re: network usage wrong because of scaling

[Chris Moore]

Nothing appears to have been changed upstream.  The applet automatically
scales, and doesn't tell you what scale it's using, and so ends up
providing almost no information.

Download at a steady 10kB/s or a steady 10MB/s and you'll see the same -
a flat graph saying that the network is 100% used.  What good is that?

Changing the tooltip to display actual data (like current up and down
speeds for example) rather than just a meaningless percentage would
help, but to fix the bug properly the user should be allowed to specify
the scale to use.  It's a nonsense to tell me that my network is 100% in
use when you have no idea what my network speed is.

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network usage wrong because of scaling
https://launchpad.net/bugs/15436