You are right.
Currently it measures the network traffic over the period of 1 (one)
second.  See the TODO.Debian to learn that I plan to make it adjustable
and more configurable ...

> André Appel dijo [Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 07:16:54PM +0100]: 
beeing received and transmitted by a NIC in a direct way only using
simple shell commands. No superuser rights required. All other tools I
found displayed continuous the incoming / outgoing rate or many other
thins. All I needed was a short information of how much is going in and
out at the moment, displayed once.[vbcol=seagreen]
>
> What does "current" mean? How long does taking a "sample" take? Can you
adjust it? Maybe this is not as important for the description, but
should be mentioned in the package 
>
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