How does the Datto Networking Portal calculate bandwidth in graphs?

Question

How does the Datto Networking Portal calculate bandwidth in graphs?

Environment

  • Datto Networking Portal

Answer

The Datto Networking Portal calculates an aggregated average of Download (TX) and Upload (RX) of networking traffic transmitted by your Datto Networking devices.

Figure 1 below shows a sample of the Traffic graph for a Datto Access Point:

Figure 1: Datto Access Point Traffic

In this example, at 17:00, all connected clients used an average of 1.9 Mbps of bandwidth.