How can I use my router statistics to check download volume?

I have a variable number of computers connecting via a Netgear router.
The router's statistics page gives packets sent and received.
How is that translated into bytes?

I have just changed from unlimited use to the Pipex MIDI package with a
15 GB limit.
How does that work?
Is it downloads AND uploads - or just downloads?
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Chris

"Chris" <nospam@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
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A free broadband download monitor is available at www.consumerchoices.co.uk

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions

"Chris" <nospam@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
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the majority of ISP's measure bandwidth used i.e. the combination of down
and up...

Zen were one of the few I could find who dont bother about upload, they only
measure down.

g.

In article <46c32136$0$13924$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk>, Fat Freddy's Cat
<hereiam@home.com> writes
Does anyone know whether Pipex measure download or both?
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Chris

In article <f9uckp$5gu$1@aioe.org>, Bill Ridgeway
<info@1001solutions.co.uk> writes
Thanks - I know about software like that.
In fact, NetMeter is even better.
But you have to install it on all computers - and add up the totals.
Surely it is possible to use the router stats?
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Chris

Chris wrote:

As long as you never need to reboot it.

Graham

"Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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You could ask your ISP for stats. After all they should have a measure of
what you've used so they can charge more or throttle back the service when
you've reached the limit. My experience of Orange was "we can't do that".
Of course not. Why should they give you the very information tou need to
reduce usage? What other utility can get away with billing you for a
commodity / usage without telling you what you've taken / used?

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:13:29 +0100, Chris <nospam@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:

I've just downloaded ver 1.1.3 and installed it and it looks like a
mighty impressive little tool, thanks.

MM

Chris <nospam@[127.0.0.1]> wrote on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 at 23:13:29:
If your router supports SNMP monitoring of network usage data and you
can run a PC all the time that the router is connected, then PRTG
Traffic Grapher should do what you want -
<http://www.paessler.com/prtg/>.
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Tony

Tony wrote:
My Sky-supplied Netgear doesn't do SNMP :-( I don't know if this is common
across the Netgear SOHO range.

In article <1187257943.1621.0@proxy00.news.clara.net>,
"Grant" <news@mason.sh> writes:
I dunno what model Sky supply, but it may be possible to enable SNMP via a
`hidden' menu, as it is on various versions of DG834 firmware.
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SAm.

In article <OS9ku6Bjf$wGFwzf@hotair.localhost.invalid>, Tony
<tonyh1nospam@hotair.demon.co.uk> writes
Thanks, Tony - I've had a look at that ... and it looks superb for a
professional scenario - but this is just a normal home set up, where I
wouldn't want to be committed to leaving a machine permanently on -
although the router does tend to get left on, and it does count the
packets received.
(Does a Netgear DG834PN support SNMP monitoring?)
Are these packets all the same size?
If so, how many bytes is in each packet?
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Chris

Sam Nelson wrote:
Mine is a DG834GT.

Thanks for the pointer.

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:39:25 +0100, in uk.telecom.broadband , Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> wrote:

Or use mrtg or similar to collect them.
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Mark McIntyre

In article <66f9c3d9os1mv69tksf1enu20i6s2ljc2m@4ax.com>, Mark McIntyre
<markmcintyre@spamcop.net> writes
If I did need to reboot the router, I suppose I could note the totals
before so doing.
But how do I get bytes received from packets received?
Is there a fixed packet size?
And, if so, what is it?

Does that mean leaving a computer on all the time?
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Chris

"Victor Meldrew" <idontbelieveit@meldrew.me.uk> wrote in message
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yeh, I installed it on first release...
currently 25.749gig and only half way through month... :-(

g.

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:41:29 +0100, in uk.telecom.broadband , Chris
<nospam@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:

My router seems to think so - it reports packets on the UI, but the
SNMP message reports in bytes.

No idea, I'm afraid.

I have mrtg running every five mins on my linux box. You could however
capture once a day if you wanted to, at the risk of losing one day's
worth of stats.
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Mark McIntyre

On 16/08/2007 22:41, Chris wrote:

No, just minimum and maximum sizes

64 and 1518 bytes for ethernet respectively.

"Chris" <nospam@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
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My router is a Fritz!Box 7050 and includes detailed stats along with voip
and many other useful features. It also does not reset the stats when
re-booting.

Not sure you can convert packets into actual data size. I thought there was
a maximum and optimum size set for ADSL but that wouldn't give you the
actual size which I presume is variable.