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| Thread ID: 33181 | 2003-05-09 13:45:00 | How do I monitor Lan and cable traffic? | chuckstar (3759) | Press F1 |
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| 142733 | 2003-05-09 13:45:00 | Hi, I have recently got a Telstra cable high-speed Internet connection. This brings me to my first problem - I don't have any easy way of finding out how much I have uploaded and downloaded (in MB) in any one session. With my old dial-up connection it was easy - I simply double-clicked on the little connection icon in the desktray at the bottom-right of the screen. However, with cable it only shows "packets" that have been sent and received. I really need to know the amount that has been sent and received in MB. OK, I am sharing this Internet connection with another computer in my house with a standard 10/100Mbps Ethernet connection. First of all, I have exactly the same problem in that I do not know how much data (in MB) has travelled down this connection (I need to know this in order to determine how much data the other computer is using of my monthly cable allocation). I would also very much like a way to communicate with the other computer - something like a talk/chat tool where I can talk to them in real-time (say I am going to bed and need to turn the computer off and give them some warning that I am doing so). Finally, the ability to throttle the other computer's throughput (bandwidth) would be handy (as I am paying for the 2Mbps cable Internet connection and would like the majority of the available bandwidth!) Thanks! |
chuckstar (3759) | ||
| 142734 | 2003-05-09 14:04:00 | If you have windows XP, then hit Ctrl Alt Del, and click on the networking tab. You can select which graph to use. It works with my ADSL | minchjp (3682) | ||
| 142735 | 2003-05-09 20:24:00 | Try DU Meter available here (http://www.dumeter.com/) Cheers Steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 142736 | 2003-05-11 12:36:00 | Thanks everyone! DUMeter is the most useful and well-done program I have seen in some years... I highly recommend it to everyone with a high-speed Internet connection! |
chuckstar (3759) | ||
| 142737 | 2003-05-11 20:35:00 | Still pays to keep an eye on your total cable usage at paradises member section as local traffic is charged to your account at 10% of international rate,Eg: if you download 500mb from a New Zealand site it will only be charged to your account as 50mb. Cheers Steve |
Steve Askew (119) | ||
| 142738 | 2003-05-11 22:19:00 | For the most, that is true. However, some ISP's like Ihug offer National bandwidth for free on JetStream Starter. You then have the likes of ICONZ who are flat rate across the board for National/International! :-) |
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