From 00328cbd0aa5f15394cb66819667742fcdafe71d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gmer4Lfe <gmer4lfe@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:36:30 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Report network throughput in bits, which is what everything
 downstream says
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/proc/net/dev counts octets; the field is named rx_bps, vvFmtBps renders Kb/s
and Mb/s, and the Monitor card prints it directly under the NIC link speed from
/sys/class/net/*/speed, which genuinely is megabits. So the one figure you would
read against the link understated traffic eightfold — 811 KB/s shown as "0.8
Mb/s" beside a 10 Gb/s link when it was 6.5. Converted at the source so the
field name stops lying; both consumers are bit-labelled or relative.
---
 Plugin/unraid/include/common.php | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Plugin/unraid/include/common.php b/Plugin/unraid/include/common.php
index bdccdb0..96293c8 100644
--- a/Plugin/unraid/include/common.php
+++ b/Plugin/unraid/include/common.php
@@ -394,10 +394,21 @@ function vv_network_stats(): array {
     file_put_contents($tmp, json_encode($now));
     rename($tmp, $stateFile);
 
+    // ×8, because /proc/net/dev counts octets and everything downstream of here says bits.
+    //
+    // The field is named rx_bps, vvFmtBps() renders it as Kb/s, Mb/s and Gb/s, and the Monitor
+    // card prints it directly beneath the NIC's link speed — which comes from
+    // /sys/class/net/*/speed and genuinely is megabits. So the one number on that card you would
+    // read against the link was understating traffic by a factor of eight: 811 KB/s of real
+    // traffic displayed as "0.8 Mb/s" next to a 10 Gb/s link, when it was 6.5 Mb/s.
+    //
+    // Converted at the source rather than in the formatter so the field name stops lying. Both
+    // consumers are the Monitor card's rate readout and its history graph, and both are relative
+    // or bit-labelled, so neither changes meaning — only magnitude, to the correct one.
     $rxRate = $txRate = 0;
     if (!empty($prev['ts']) && ($dt = $now['ts'] - $prev['ts']) > 0.1) {
-        $rxRate = max(0, (int)(($rxBytes - ($prev['rx'] ?? $rxBytes)) / $dt));
-        $txRate = max(0, (int)(($txBytes - ($prev['tx'] ?? $txBytes)) / $dt));
+        $rxRate = max(0, (int)(($rxBytes - ($prev['rx'] ?? $rxBytes)) * 8 / $dt));
+        $txRate = max(0, (int)(($txBytes - ($prev['tx'] ?? $txBytes)) * 8 / $dt));
     }
 
     $speedMbps = (int)@file_get_contents("/sys/class/net/$iface/speed");