richardwoelk at yahoo
Aug 6, 2008, 7:47 PM
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Re: OT: Track Total Downloads for Bandwidth Limit
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R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
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>> R. G. Newbury wrote:
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>>> My house is halfway between 2 local switches and I get only 288 kbps up
>>> or down with DSL.
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>>> I'm wondering about getting Rogers "Portable Internet Basic" which would
>>> be twice as fast at the same price. However that package has a Monthly
>>> Bandwidth Activity Limit of 10GB.
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>>> Can anyone suggest a program which will allow me to track and total my
>>> downloads (including daily SchedulesDirect mythfilldatabase). There must
>>> be some sort of program, and I may end up with a bruise on my forehead
>>> when someone points out the obvious to me, but at the moment, I'm stumped.
>>>
>> I believe that Roger's basic service has only 64k upstream speed, pretty
>> limited. The speeds quoted for downstream are "up to", and subject to
>> major slowdowns during peak usage periods.
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> I don't care about upstream at all. And yes, downstream needs to be
> administered with together with copious quantities of salt. But twice
> the speed at the same price does sound nice...
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>> I've also read of folks complaining that rain and other bad weather can
>> cause slowdowns or actual outages. Personally I would refuse to
>> purchase any service with a bandwidth cap, mainly to discourage that
>> sort of anti-social behavior.
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> True, And I do not KNOW if there is an antenna on the cell tower which I
> can see from my roof, but I think so.
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> Yes, I don't like the idea of a cap either. You are correct: it is
> anti-social. Moreover it is clearly a gouging control. But if I never
> get close to the cap, it is as if it did not exist.
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>> As long as you are aware of the limitations, and are OK with that, go
>> for it.
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>> As for keeping track of usage, ifconfig will tell you the total packets
>> through an interface.
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> Well ifconfig is a little on the raw side of what I was thinking
> about.And it is unclear what period is being reported:
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> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:14658684 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:18058565 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:452591535 (431.6 MiB) TX bytes:1497872051 (1.3 GiB)
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> But vnstat looks interesting. Thanks to whoever recommended it.
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> Geoff
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gkrellm reads the ifconfig bytes and keeps its own records categorized
by month, week, & day. Click on the little grey button at the bottom
right of the eth graph
I have a linux computer used as my internet router, so its outside link
is all the internet I use.
10GB cap, ouch, I'd have a lot of trouble staying under that, my average
is around 80GB, and I've hit 300GB in a month
HTH
- Richard
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