Average Payload Throughput (bits/s) (Selected)

The following figure depicts the Throughput display with the Average Payload Throughput (bits/sec) (Selected) indicators in the left column. This portion of the dialog displays average throughput for a selected packet range when you select a packet from the Timeline.

Average throughput is the total payload over the entire session divided by the total time.  Total time is calculated by taking the difference in timestamps between the first and last packet. In Bluetooth, timestamp difference is used instead of Bluetooth clock count because timestamp difference is immune to role switches. However, this can result in inaccuracies when the duration is small enough that a coarse timestamp granularity is significant.

  • Duration for average throughput is beginning of first packet to end of last packet. If a single packet is selected, the duration of that packet is used.
  • Average throughput can be nonzero when a single packet is selected.
  • Average throughput is shown for all devices, master devices, and slave devices.   
  • A horizontal bar indicates relative percentage.  Text displays the throughput value