Shannon Entropy of Individual PE sections

The channel capacity of a single byte samples has a maximum of 8 bits.

Another way of thinking about it: If a single byte has the same value for every sample, you need 0 additional bits of information to describe the values.

If a single byte takes on 256 different values, [0 to 255], then for every sample you will need 8 additional bits of information to uniquely describe the values.

For example, if you were measuring the Shannon Entropy of a collection of Short values (2 bytes / 16 bits) it would range from 0 (constant) to 16 (completely random).