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| Thread ID: 109501 | 2010-05-11 05:30:00 | What do you use to monitor data usage? | utopian201 (6245) | Press F1 |
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| 883771 | 2010-05-11 05:30:00 | Hi What programs do you use to track your broadband data usage? I did a search and tautology and netmeter showed up. Do these differentiate between LAN traffic and WAN/Internet traffic? |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 883772 | 2010-05-11 05:39:00 | Xnet's usage monitor. Altho I probably dont need one, I've never been over what I allocated 3 yrs ago - 15 GB a mth. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 883773 | 2010-05-11 05:41:00 | but what about if you are sharing the internet and you dont want to go over your share of the data? | utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 883774 | 2010-05-11 05:43:00 | Hi What programs do you use to track your broadband data usage? I did a search and tautology and netmeter showed up. Do these differentiate between LAN traffic and WAN/Internet traffic?I'm with Slingshot - they have a URL you can go to that updates every 20 minutes or so with your data usage (and a whole bunch of other info) - I've got a script that pulls that data into a SQL db every hour and an internal webpage that displays how much I've used... I don't know if other ISPs have something similar, but I find it very useful. It keeps track of my monthly allowance, cumulative use, and how much I've got left of both monthly and cumulative total (eg 1gb per day, so at 10th day of month I could have downloaded 10gb to sit nicely within monthly allowance... if I've only used 6gb by 10th of month then I can freely download 4gb more without screwing up the rest of the month). Also keeps track of whether in Peak or Off-peak so I know if I'm using up monthly quota or not. Cheers, Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 883775 | 2010-05-11 05:44:00 | It counts that too (there's 3 PC's here soon to be 4 that are on the net). Doesnt matter if it goes over. The speed will go down. Till the next month. There is no share of the data here. Since there's only 2 of us here, and I'm the only one paying for net access. The only thing that updates on the other 2 PC's is MSSE. Everything else, I download onto this PC, and copy it across the network. Saves me getting it 3 times. This inc updates for windows. All the updates are on this, (for 2k/XP/Vista/Win7) in case I format any of these. Saves me getting them again. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 883776 | 2010-05-11 05:47:00 | Yeah the Xnet monitor or any URL monitor shows you what your modem has used. If you have used 2GB but your bro used 15GB, it will show 17GB. If you wanna limit how much other people in your house can use .. then I dunno. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 883777 | 2010-05-11 05:51:00 | Probably through a proxy server that allocates internet to each PC would do what you're wanting. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 883778 | 2010-05-11 05:55:00 | I'm pretty sure everything that has been mentioned so far only counts the total internet used by all computers. Is my assumption correct? Yeah the Xnet monitor or any URL monitor shows you what your modem has used. If you have used 2GB but your bro used 15GB, it will show 17GB. If you wanna limit how much other people in your house can use .. then I dunno. I'm not wanting to limit how much others in the house can use (my router already does that). I just want to find out how much -MY- computer has used so far so I dont use more than my fair share. Is there anything that will tell me what I have used personally? As I said, I found tautology and netmeter, but I don't know if they differentiate between WAN and LAN traffic (important because sometimes we transfer several gb of data across the LAN) The router has this per user information but I am not going to give the router's admin login username and password to everyone so they can check. I'd rather they run a program on their own computer. |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 883779 | 2010-05-11 05:56:00 | If you want to track individual traffic usage by PC, the most accurate way is to set up a proxy or a gateway as Mike touched on (either on a PC or a router with relevant tracking software). Or else you could use software like Netmeter - I believe it allows you to differentiate between WAN and LAN traffic to a degree - though thats far less reliable from a viewpoint of keeping within your ISP-imposed usage limits. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 883780 | 2010-05-11 06:10:00 | www.softperfect.com try this its free works well | Roger Hunt (13648) | ||
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