Internet useage/download software?

Hunders · 28 Jun 2006 at 23:36

Hello.

Does anyone here know of any software that monitors the amount you download from the internet?

I have a 30GB a month limit at the moment and although I have never passed this limit, it would be interesting to see how much of the limit I am actually using.

It would be great if the software would run on startup and just track how much I have used for that session, the day, the week and the month.

Anyone know of anything?

Ta!

DoubleCheese · 28 Jun 2006 at 23:38

Have a look for an app called DU Meter, it'll do what you want.

ants83 · 28 Jun 2006 at 23:52

net limiter pro isnt free though but does a good job

Hunders · 28 Jun 2006 at 23:54

Mate, that does EXACTLY what I want!

Thanks.

ants83 · 28 Jun 2006 at 23:58

which one did you go for?

Hunders · 29 Jun 2006 at 00:01

I downloaded DU Meter.

ants - you must have posted as I was writing my other reply out because I didnt see your suggestion. Ill give it a go. Cheers!

cymatty · 29 Jun 2006 at 00:20

Does DU meter differentiate between net traffic and internal network traffic, cheers.

Richiev4 · 29 Jun 2006 at 00:26

cymatty said:
Does DU meter differentiate between net traffic and internal network traffic, cheers.

No it dosn't, which was a shame as I used it before NTL lifted it download limits.

Rich

cymatty · 29 Jun 2006 at 00:26

Richiev4 said:
No it dosn't, which was a shame as I used it before NTL lifted it download limits.

Rich

Ah thats useless then as i probably uses 40gb a month internal networking.

tolien · 29 Jun 2006 at 00:31

If you have a router that does SNMP, you could use PRTG/MRTG/RRDGraph et al, and get graphs like this (Cacti):

Which does differentiate between internet and network usage. Chuck a (decent) managed switch in, and you can get graphs like that for each port.

It's been covered umpteen times in NIC too - Search is your friend.

cymatty · 29 Jun 2006 at 00:33

tolien said:
Which does differentiate between internet and network usage. Chuck a (decent) managed switch in, and you can get graphs like that for each port.

It's been covered umpteen times in NIC too - Search is your friend.

Cheers dont need it anyway now though, as i have just found out NTL have removed the bandwith cap.

tolien · 29 Jun 2006 at 00:34

cymatty said:
Cheers dont need it anyway now though, as i have just found out NTL have removed the bandwith cap.

It wasn't exclusively directed at you.

cymatty · 29 Jun 2006 at 00:35

tolien said:
It wasn't exclusively directed at you.

Ah ok.

Deathwish · 29 Jun 2006 at 00:47

BWMeter will differentiate between Local and Internet traffic.