I am currently registered with Pipex Solo500 broadband package which
offers unlimited monthly bandwidth. Maybe, because the bandwidth is
unlimited, Pipex do not provide a mechanism whereby Solo500 users can
monitor their usage.

Even so, I really do want to know what my monthly bandwidth usage is as
this would enable me to switch to a more appropriate package that suited
my actual usage.

So, can anybody recommend any freeware that I can install on my PC that
will enable to monitor and collate the bandwidth usage.

Many thanks,
Ed

Ed wrote:
Have a look at Nicmeter [www.nicmeter.com]

DD

Unless you download music, videos or warez, you will find 1Gb p/ month is
quite sufficient.
PlusNet provides usage figures, so you can select / adjust the package to
suit.
They do 1Mb/s with 1Gb for mere £14.99, extra 1Gb is £2.00 (or £1.90 if pre
selected).
If you do switch please use my id 'jerryw' as a referrer, save me 25p/m,
thanks.
Regards,
Martin

Quoting Ed on 11/4/2004 (4:19:11 PM):

I know that NicMeter has been mentioned but here is another good
alternative:

NetTraffic Meter
http://www.kctoolbox.tk/


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"Ed" ex@directory wrote in message news:2sKdnUFaQ5uSNhfcRVnyug@pipex.net
NetMeter
http://readerror.gmxhome.de/

DD wrote:
NicMeter seems to be just what I need. But what a shame the download
site is not working.

Have to look at something else.

Build It Yourself wrote:
I tried and had trouble too, I guess ther are plenty of alternative
download sites posted now.

DD

"Ed" <ex@directory> wrote in message news:2sKdnUFaQ5uSNhfcRVnyug@pipex.net...
My Speedtouch 510 router records this info for me. Downloading Linux CD images
and software updates is using up my 'bandwidth' rapidly!

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In message <418ade8d$0$33626$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>,
Martin² <never@give.one> writes
I'd dispute that. Whilst I don't download any of those things, I do
listen to some streaming audio (radio stations via the web), as well as
a fair amount of web browsing, and some use of technologies like VoIP
and similar.

My monthly Internet usage is running at around 6GBytes for my entire
network - not heavy, but I can sometimes use 1GByte in two or three days
on quite legitimate usage.



David
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David Wood wrote:
So, you are not disputing whether it's "music, videos or warez", right?
Your disputing what's to be considered "normal usage", right?

I would venture to say that "some streaming audio" can be a *lot* like
downloading music... Care to define what "some streaming audio" is in
terms of hours per day?

On 05 Nov 2004 in uk.telecom.broadband, BarryTone wrote:

More to the point, in terms of MB per day, because there's quite a big
difference between some speech stations and some music stations.

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Martin² wrote:
For me, the point is that I do not know whether 1Gb per month is
sufficient or not. It might be. With the Pipex Solo500 package I have
unlimited bandwidth so it is not really an issue right now, but if I
were to switch packages to something cheaper whereby I only pay for what
I actually use, then it is good to know what my typical upload/download
figures actually are.

So, after getting help on this group, I am simultaneously using two
programs to monitor usage: NicMeter and Ras Graph&Stats. Now sure
which I prefer yet. Strangely, they both report slightly different
figures even though they run together. Not wildly different but I
thought they would be exactly the same.

Yesterday's UL and DL figures were:

NicMeter: 5.64 MB
Ras G&S : 5.44 MB

Anyone know why there might be a difference?

Ed

On that special day, BarryTone, (BarryTone@whatzamattau.org) said...

Maybe. But there are those huge online game patches (look at Sacred,
they added a fifth act, which is an archive of 128 MB), or the user
downloaded an ISO image of a certain linux distro, and three days later
it is announced that Apache can be DDoSed, and the image has to be
fixed, and you have to download it again. Bang, another 650-700 MB, and
the quota is exceeded.


Gabriele Neukam

Gabriele.Spamfighter.Neukam@t-online.de


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Gabriele Neukam wrote:
Yeah. Actually, I'm agreeing that 1GB a month can go "just like that".
With M$ bloat of everything under the sun, it's a no-brainer too.
Anyway, my usage varies a lot and can range from 0 to perhaps 12GB a
month, depending on what I'm doing.