Decent, free, Bandwidth usage monitor?

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Does anyone know where I can download a FREE bandwidth usage monitor? NTL (my ISP) will be upgrading the connections soon to 3mb, but also imposing 40GB per month limits. So I'd like a way of keeping an eye on how much I'm using. Unfortunately the only ones I've found seem to forget how much has been downloaded if the computer reboots, or continue to add the amount with no way of starting from scratch at the beginning of each month.

So what im looking for is something that logs how much is downloaded/uploaded in a readable manner ie: MB/GB and lets you reset every month. So I can make sure I don't go over it cause apparantly if you do you get dropped down to 56k speeds, which would really suck.


Fankoo!
 
I'm pretty sure NTL will be giving us a login-site where we can check how much we've downloaded... it would be stupid to just slap a cap on and leave us blind.

I've got a housefull of machines running off my NTL connection, so I can't exactly slap a bandwidth meter on all of them and then go round adding the totals up every day. Well I could, but I can't be arsed.

I'm sure for this reason alone, NTL will be obligated to tell us how much we've downloaded.
 
lePobz said:
I'm pretty sure NTL will be giving us a login-site where we can check how much we've downloaded... it would be stupid to just slap a cap on and leave us blind.

I've got a housefull of machines running off my NTL connection, so I can't exactly slap a bandwidth meter on all of them and then go round adding the totals up every day. Well I could, but I can't be arsed.

I'm sure for this reason alone, NTL will be obligated to tell us how much we've downloaded.
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I dunno. It is NTL afterall, so any status page is likely not to work very well, and your also putting trust into what it says, if the system suffers they could just fake a whole number of random machines to make things easier for others.

It could also be buggy (think STB software) and with semistatic IP's it could become complicated and mixed up with other users.

Don't they have something in the T&C where they only allow 2 machines per connection? Or has that been changed now.
 
I don't know if its changed but my NAT router shares my connection, NTL can't stop me from doing that. I'm currently running 5 machines (sometimes 6) simultaneously, so if it were against any rules i'd probably know by now.

I doubt NTL would 'fake' download statistics, i mean... if you kept track of your own downloads, and they faked a statistic and cut you off early, then you could take them to court and get a lot of money.

I wonder if theres a device you can buy that sits inbetween the modem and the router (or computer) that can measure the throughput...
 
mozila firefox has a bandwidth usage monitor browser extension

use firefox, download browser extension from thier home page

EDIT: I haven't tried it so I don't know if it keeps track.
 
VirusType2 said:
mozila firefox has a bandwidth usage monitor browser extension

use firefox, download browser extension from thier home page

EDIT: I haven't tried it so I don't know if it keeps track.
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heh I shoulda thought to check for FF extensions, silly me :)

I'll give it a try, thanks. Though it wont help with other things, Steam/WoW etc.
 
hey, i know this is an old thread. sorry to dig it up. but my i just asked my friend about the (just got upgraded to NTL 3mb) 40gb a month limit. and he has 'inside knowledge' that apparently apart from the North of england. most places in the UK aren't capable of monitoring the traffic, therefore wouldn't enforce such a limit. maybe wrong, but meh.
 
that's probably true, since i heard the same thing, and i also have the 1mbit connection with 3gb monthly limit, and i've gone well over 30gb this month, with no letters or emails received telling me to slow down.
 
hahahahah,

I've used 20.7 so far this month, and the month isn't over yet.

btw, yes this is quite old :p
 
i heard that BT Yahoo! Broadband arent capping until later this year, so maybe them ISPs are either not capping yet, or are obtaining the technology to do so, and will cap you eventually. guess we might as well take advantage of it while were still free :P
btw, just to raise some debate, as files get bigger (only afew year back, a 4MB system was something to aww at, now 4MB is nothing, were looking at 4GB) will they actually bring up the caps along with it? our lines will get faster, files will get bigger, and will ISPs just milk us of every penny by beginning to charge by the MB (or GB by the time)?
just something to look forward to
 
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