type="topic" style="task"

      id="net-bits">

  <info>

    <revision version="0.2" pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-01-26" status="review"/>

    <link type="guide" xref="index#net" group="net" />

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">

      <name>Phil Bull</name>

      <email>philbull@gmail.com</email>

      <years>2011</years>

    </credit>

    <credit type="author copyright">

      <name>Michael Hill</name>

      <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>

      <years>2011, 2014</years>

    </credit>

    <desc>Choose the units to display your network speed.</desc>

  </info>

  <title>Show the network speed in bits instead of bytes per second</title>

  <comment>

    Phil Bull

    
Brief topic. Explain how to do this, and why you might want to do it.

  </comment>

  
Network speed is often shown in bits per second, rather than bytes per

 second. This is called the bit rate, or data rate.

  
To display the network speed in bits:

  <steps>

    <item>
Click

      <guiseq><gui>System Monitor</gui><gui>Preferences</gui></guiseq>.

    </item>

    <item>
Click the <gui>Resources</gui> tab.
</item>

    <item>
Select <gui>Show network speed in bits</gui>.
</item>

  </steps>

</page>