I remember seing a site on here a while back, which has a converter for MBPS to GB. Do you guys know of any? as I would like to convert my MRTG MBPS average into real GB of bandwidth.

316.50GB?



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Whenever I get brain-freeze and I can't do the calculations in my head, I just go here: http://www.valkaryn.net/bwcalc/

And with that utility, you can also enter a dollar amount and have it calculate costs for you.

Does anyone know of a software solution that will do similar types of calculations?

dude.. google.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=10+megabits%2Fsecond%3D%3F+gigabytes%2Fmonth&btnG=Search

Thanks for the reply... I was thinking more along the lines of a software solution.... in other words, an actual downloadable program which would do similar calculations without being connected to the internet. I've run across some programs that will do calculations for a specific file size and time rate, but I was looking for something that would be more applicable in a wider variety of situations.

Okay... maybe I should just shut up now... but I found an easy way to do this. Just multiply or divide by approx. 321. If you want MBPS, take the total monthly bandwidth in GB per month and divide by 321 (yes, this is off by a tiny amount, but no more than between 0.5 and 0.9). Conversly, you can multiply your MBPS by 321 to reach the total bandwidth in GB per month (again, apparently with no more than a 0.5 to 0.9 deviance). Handy... I tried this with 1.00 MBPS, 1.54 MBPS and 10 MBPS, as well as a couple random stabs at fictional monthly bandwidth rates in GBPM and it all seems to work out. Even verified it with the Google calc and the bandwidth equations seem to work out...

Most co-location customers are not interested in mean utilization to transfer volume / month conversions like those that have been demonstrated in this thread. Why? They're not billed based on mean ("average") utilizaton; they are billed on a 95th percentile basis.
Read my previous posts on this topic for more discussion and some useful numbers. This is rehashed on WHT about once a week.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?postid=1969514#post1969514
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?postid=2051777#post2051777

You could use MRTG, take all the 5 min measurements and convert them to GB. It's pretty easy.

As Jeff pointed out, some colo customers are used to Mbps so if you can bill that way you as a provider will be better off (because you will probably be billed on 95th). On the other hand, most smaller customers want average billing (we offer GB to colo and dedicated) as it works better for them.