I run Cinnamon EOS, and use a Cinnamon applet, System Monitor, in the top panel. It shows download speed among other things. When running Steam, and downlo0ading something Steam also shows a download speed. Comparing the two apps shows quite a disparity, (image below.) I am wondering if there is a better way, (more accurate) way of depicting download speed.
Not sure what your definition of “quite a disparity” is, but I only see a difference of a factor of two. (In case you weren’t aware: 1 MiB/s ~ 1/8 Mbps; not sure if you were already accounting for that).
You could look at the network usage per process (no idea if the Cinnamon applet can do that; the KDE one can), that should eliminate any other trafic from the equation. And since the Cinammon applet is displaying a higher network usage than Steam, I’d guess that something else is using the network…
Those aren’t measuring the same thing.
The top is only showing 1 minute. The Steam numbers are probably showing you an aggregate.
On top of that, the top one is showing all network traffic.
The first question is what you are trying to measure? The speed of your internet connection?
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Thanks. I see now that I did not pay close enough attention to the MiB/s and Mbps.
I knew about some (if not many) companies rounded off a mega byte to 1 000 000 bytes, which, in itself, introduces an inaccuracy, but I never really paid attention to the MiB/s.