From 0238558a4b864ac4d6d499b4e1ea8fbaaad84d55 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Craig-Wood Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 09:24:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify bits vs bytes in --bwlimit docs --- docs/content/docs.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/content/docs.md b/docs/content/docs.md index 3f5392f81..2a6112b29 100644 --- a/docs/content/docs.md +++ b/docs/content/docs.md @@ -198,6 +198,12 @@ For example to limit bandwidth usage to 10 MBytes/s use `--bwlimit 10M` This only limits the bandwidth of the data transfer, it doesn't limit the bandwith of the directory listings etc. +Note that the units are Bytes/s not Bits/s. Typically connections are +measured in Bits/s - to convert divide by 8. For example let's say +you have a 10 Mbit/s connection and you wish rclone to use half of it +- 5 Mbit/s. This is 5/8 = 0.625MByte/s so you would use a `--bwlimit +0.625M` parameter for rclone. + ### --checkers=N ### The number of checkers to run in parallel. Checkers do the equality