diff --git a/src/Indicator/Widgets/IndicatorWidgetBandwidth.vala b/src/Indicator/Widgets/IndicatorWidgetBandwidth.vala
index e58b3a2fe..75bdad803 100644
--- a/src/Indicator/Widgets/IndicatorWidgetBandwidth.vala
+++ b/src/Indicator/Widgets/IndicatorWidgetBandwidth.vala
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ public class Monitor.IndicatorWidgetBandwidth : Monitor.IndicatorWidget {
     public override void update_label (Value value) {
         uint64 bandwidth = value.get_uint64 ();
 
-        label.label = format_size (bandwidth);
+        label.label = Utils.Strings.format_network_speed (bandwidth);
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Utils.vala b/src/Utils.vala
index 6a8cfe1d0..379fa66e6 100644
--- a/src/Utils.vala
+++ b/src/Utils.vala
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
  */
 
 namespace Monitor.Utils {
+    const int BITS_IN_BYTES = 8;
+
     const string NOT_AVAILABLE = (_("N/A"));
     const string NO_DATA = "\u2014";
 
@@ -49,6 +51,14 @@ public class Monitor.Utils.Strings {
         return pretty;
     }
 
+    public static string format_network_speed (uint64 speed) {
+        ///TRANSLATORS: The first param is the numeric value (as string) of network speed.
+        ///The second param with the appended "/s" is the network speed unit such as "Mb/s" for megabits per second.
+        return _("%s %s/s").printf (
+            format_size (speed * Utils.BITS_IN_BYTES, BITS | IEC_UNITS | ONLY_VALUE),
+            format_size (speed * Utils.BITS_IN_BYTES, BITS | ONLY_UNIT)
+        );
+    }
 }
 
 public class Monitor.Utils.Colors : Object {
diff --git a/src/Views/SystemView/SystemNetworkView.vala b/src/Views/SystemView/SystemNetworkView.vala
index 1a4c5ef6e..dd5d1fb7d 100644
--- a/src/Views/SystemView/SystemNetworkView.vala
+++ b/src/Views/SystemView/SystemNetworkView.vala
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ public class Monitor.SystemNetworkView : Gtk.Grid {
         double up_bytes = network.bytes_out;
         double down_bytes = network.bytes_in;
         if (up_bytes >= 0 && down_bytes >= 0) {
-            network_download_label.text = ("%s/s").printf (format_size ((uint64) down_bytes, IEC_UNITS));
-            network_upload_label.text = ("%s/s").printf (format_size ((uint64) up_bytes, IEC_UNITS));
+            network_download_label.text = Utils.Strings.format_network_speed ((uint64) down_bytes);
+            network_upload_label.text = Utils.Strings.format_network_speed ((uint64) up_bytes);
             network_chart.update (0, up_bytes);
             network_chart.update (1, down_bytes);
         }