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| Thread ID: 110311 | 2010-06-11 12:40:00 | Best program for monitoring individual PC internet usage | rorz (15826) | Press F1 |
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| 1109333 | 2010-06-11 12:40:00 | Hi all, I live in a flat and we keep blowing our 25gig cap completely and noone is owning up to it, so i want to install a program on each of our computers to see who is responsible. I have tried several programs but they all measure local data too (which means streaming movies from each other on the network) which makes it hard to see who is responsible for the excessive online usage. Any ideas? Thanks |
rorz (15826) | ||
| 1109334 | 2010-06-11 21:27:00 | Hi rorz, Welcome to PressF1. Rather than a program on the device, which is easy to circumvent, what you really want is something along the lines of WebGauge from www.webgauge.co.nz Having a software solution is easy to get around, by either uninstalling, disabling it, or using another OS? Having something such as WebGauge do it at the router level, you know it's going to log all data and there will be no denying it ;) Hope this helps Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1109335 | 2010-06-11 21:49:00 | i know what you mean. i been signing in regularly to check my usage. 1hr of video can be 250MB, say you do 2hr and you have children so 2 computers on avg you looking at a 1GB a day just for vids, lol. imo 25gb would the the min for a active family. for grown up adults flatting - good luck :D or either over time bb prices have not "nominally" increased or decreased (generally speaking) and that wages have gone up (be it inflation adj affected or not) - perhaps some thinks we pay for what we get plus nz has cheaper stds of living than the larger cities in the world. so in a way bb could be seen a bit cheaper over time ;) i've been trying to cut my usage back so i don't get dial up speed and i don't wanna pay more so for me there is still life when i turn the router off and check email for 5mins before bed time :D |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1109336 | 2010-06-11 23:21:00 | Hey guys thanks for the replies, Am checking out webguage now, could very well be what i'm after. Will post a reply and let you know how the program goes. Cheers again |
rorz (15826) | ||
| 1109337 | 2010-06-12 02:00:00 | Hi all, I live in a flat and we keep blowing our 25gig cap completely and noone is owning up to it, so i want to install a program on each of our computers to see who is responsible. I have tried several programs but they all measure local data too (which means streaming movies from each other on the network) which makes it hard to see who is responsible for the excessive online usage. Any ideas? Thanks No one owning up?, wow, nice flat-mates |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1109338 | 2010-06-12 10:50:00 | +1 for WebGauge, I've used it myself and it is excellent :) | Dannz (1668) | ||
| 1109339 | 2010-06-12 12:53:00 | At my flat we use either Netlimiter 2 Monitor (www.netlimiter.com) which can differentiate between local and internet. For Windows 7 I have also been using Networx (www.softperfect.com) which has similar functionality. Both let you check over specified timeframes (if you have non-standard month cut-off dates). Hope that helps. GorCh |
GorCh (13021) | ||
| 1109340 | 2010-06-13 03:47:00 | If your modem allows you to get info via SNMP, you may be able to use this free product - www.paessler.com | decibel (11645) | ||
| 1109341 | 2010-06-13 23:16:00 | what router do you use? if it is supported by 3rd party firmware (tomato, dd-wrt, openWRT), you can use those firmwares. Using the firewall rules, you can block traffic on a per computer basis. I haven't tried it myself yet since I haven't had to with my flatmates. Best of all it is free :) | utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 1109342 | 2010-06-13 23:34:00 | that's why i don't like to depend on others. i get and pay for it myself (100%). they can get their own connection if they want ... what you gonna do? here are the evidence and don't lie to me? assuming you are via cable connection, i just disable the wireless or change the WPA password. :thumbs: |
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