8mb upgrade, few questions.

Yewen

Yewen

Yewen

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Been on zens 512k service for years now, they have recently changed there packages and for the same money I can get there 8mb service with a 20gb cap.

In real world terms is 20gb a reasonable amount, as I have no idea, I do not do anything I should not, but have msn open continually and receive about 9000 pure text emails a month, I asume that browsing 7 hours a day with the limit and that would be ok?

I am on a droitwich exchange, and my router shows this:


ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 576 kbps 288 kbps
Line Attenuation 45 db 14.5 db
Noise Margin 29 db 29 db
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Does that look ok for me getting above 4mb speeds when the new exchange gets updated, or am I better sticking with my 0.5mb connection due to the download cap?

Sorry for the silly question, does not seem silly to me!
 
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Oh well, if its set for a upgrade, like I think I read on a site when I googled, it is good enough for me if I can get 2mb until then.

Is 20gb enough of a limit for my usage do you think?
 
The usage meter isn't available (yet) - you can email support and get (rough) measures of how much you've shifted, but the best answer's monitor it yourself.

How exactly depends on what you're using to connect (or more to the point, how you connect to it).

If you don't know how much you're using, it might not be the cleverest of ideas to upgrade - even if you're looking at more speed. Once you're on the capped setup, there's no way back.
 
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Netgear DG834 router, firmware 3.01 (I think on the firmware)

I will email the technical support and see if they can give me a rough idea, there is nothing on the site yet to tell me.

Looks as though I will have to hold off a while before I re-grade.

Yeh I have not switched from Zen for years because it has been uncapped, just no worry of going over with it. So looks as though I will have to monitor it myself.

I have done 1.9gb on the network connection in the last 22 hours, but not all is internet traffic.
 
The more speed you have the more you down load, i when i had 512k moved to 4 meg then to 8meg now to 24meg it seems i down load more, and maybe soon 100 meg if ntl get their act together.
 
Yewen said:
Netgear DG834 router, firmware 3.01 (I think on the firmware)
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Don't think it (properly) does SNMP, so suspect you're stuck with something like DUMeter.

The more speed you have the more you down load
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If you're out to download the internet, maybe. Majority of users (including me, and I'm hardly average) nothing changes.
 
Cheers for the replies, bar maybe 500mb of files per month (1mb here, 10mb there) I do not really download anything much, just wondering what my browsing habbits total, as I have seen since my original post a usage of 100mb just for internet, no downloading or network.

DUmeter, does it just log how much you use?

/tootles off to google.
 
Should do (but will probably also log your network transfers).

If your router supported SNMP (and IIRC it doesn't), you could turn out graphs like this:
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(and yes, I am just looking for an excuse to show off Cacti :p)
 
How much would a router be to support that new fandangled feature, I have had this DG834 since release when it cost me £140 :p
 
Sorry for the slight hijack but my wireless linksys has SNMP, how do I access the data which this can provide?
 
Linksys will probably do a utillity for it, is it a wap11? Don't get too excited though, the router Tolien has is very expensive, and therefore has all the extras etc that your's probably won't.
 
Linksys thing I got from a local supermarket type place, but it has a SNMP option, I just don't know how to see what its telling me :)
 
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Don't get too excited though, the router Tolien has is very expensive, and therefore has all the extras etc that your's probably won't.
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That's mostly irrelevant - the Linksys will still let you monitor throughput through SNMP.

You're after something like PRTG.
 
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