Packet Rate to Effective Throughput

Input Packet Rate in thousands of packets per second (Eg: 1,000 packet per second would be entered as 1)

Throughput to Packet Rate

Throughput to Packet Rate

Input Throughput in Mb/s (Eg: 1Gb/s would be entered as 1000)

Explanation:

The Sonicwall processes small and large packets virtually at the same speed and utilizing essentially the same CPU resources.
Thus the limiting factor will not be Throughput but rather Packet Rate. Since our documentation show the limits of the Firewalls in Mb/s or Gb/s, we will need to translate these figures into more appropriate values.
Hence to go from Packet Rate to Throughput you take the Packet Rate in one direction (incoming or out going), you multiply it by 2 (incoming packet rate is nearly always very similar to packet rate outgoing, one could sum the two but multiplying is easier math), multiply it by 8 (packets are in bytes, throughput is in bits, 8 bits to a byte), and lastly you multiply it by 1518 (max MTU for Ethernet plus overhead).
PPS * 2 * 8 * 1518
The reverse operation is done to obtain Packet Rate from Throughput.