diff --git a/plugins/network/multibandwidth b/plugins/network/multibandwidth
index 9f6b57c3..3f48cd4b 100644
--- a/plugins/network/multibandwidth
+++ b/plugins/network/multibandwidth
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ for host in $hosts; do
   #bing output example: host:  4.592Mbps 0.223ms 0.217773us/bit
   bing localhost "$host" -n -c 1 -e "$samples" -s "$small_packet_size" -S "$big_packet_size" 2>/dev/null \
           | grep -E "bit$" \
-          | cut -d " " -f3 \
+          | awk -F" +" '{ print $2}' | cut -c -5 \
           | cut -c -5 \
           | awk '{a+=$1} END{print a/NR}'
 done