Bytes/Packets in Lan Status

[]SK[]

If you look in the lan status (double click two icons in task manager) you sometimes see its either Bytes or Packets. Is there a way to force it to be on Bytes all the time?

 

[Shovel]

Seconded.

It must be set somewhere, but the defaults seem to vary! The family PC at home displays packets (XP SP1 full install), while my XP0 install has always defaulted to Bytes.

 

[Custodian]

My new PC is XP sp1 and it says bytes.
The help says "The amount of data, in either bytes or packets,....."
How helpful :/

 

[]SK[]

Yes its random

 

[Panda On Smack]

Can I take this opportunity to ask what the difference between the 2 is as i've often wondered.

ta

 

[Athan]

Any given packet can be any number of bytes between a minimum (TCP/IP header at least) and a maximum (64KB including the header). A byte is just, er, well *A* byte.

So packet count actually tells you approximately fuck all, whilste byte count actually tells you how much the interface has transferred.

-Ath

 

[Shovel]

Ha! The Home PC is now displaying Bytes... I can't believe that it's not controlled by a registry setting somewhere.