I have downloaded both Net Meter, and DU Meter which is on a months trial,
Net Meter desn't seem to give much information and there are no help pages,
do you think it is worth paying for DU Meter ?

Or are there any more free ones worth trying ?
TIA

Pãt

"Linedancer" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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I used Net Meter - seems to give all the information you (one?) could want?

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Frank

"Frank Stacey" <f._spamremove_stacey@zen.co.uk> wrote in message
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Without trying to state the obvious have you right clicked on the little
red/green arrows in your notification icons in the bottom corner of your
screen when running Netmeter. If you do that and then click Totals it gives
you all the possible data you need.

Roy

RChick wrote:
Yes I have done that, it gives the totals I know, it doesn't run unless you
open it though does it ?

DU meter runs all the time and gives daily, weekly, monthly reports etc.the
totals include data received today and data received since it started
running, it tells you how many hours online too.

Maybe that's not all necessary, I am just running a check on my usage prior
to getting broadband, and I want to be able to check it when I am on
broadband, then I can make sure I don't go over my 3gb a month
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"Linedancer" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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| RChick wrote:
| >>
| >
| > Without trying to state the obvious have you right clicked on the
| > little red/green arrows in your notification icons in the bottom
| > corner of your screen when running Netmeter. If you do that and then
| > click Totals it gives you all the possible data you need.
| >
| > Roy
|
| Yes I have done that, it gives the totals I know, it doesn't run unless
you
| open it though does it ?

Right click > Options

Checking - load on Windows Startup, as well as close to tray

keeps it running in the background and automatically starts logging as soon
as I connect.

manckevin wrote:
Thanks for that :-)
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Pãt

RChick <roy.chicken@nospam.btinternet.com> wrote:

: Without trying to state the obvious have you right clicked on the little
: red/green arrows in your notification icons in the bottom corner of your
: screen when running Netmeter. If you do that and then click Totals it gives
: you all the possible data you need.

I only tried Netmeter briefly and it generally seemed very good...EXCEPT
that I wanted it to itemize traffic on my ADSL link only - not local
inter-machine traffic on my router (which would also appear as traffic on
my Ethernet card) - basically all EXCEPT 192.168.*.*.

I do not know if I missed this or if dumeter can do it.

Brian McIlwrath wrote:
On the Netmeter Options/General tab you can select the network interface
to monitor. Just choose the appropriate network adapter from the drop
down list.

Most of these options can be simply found with a right click and no more
than two minutes clicking through the tabs. Is a manual really needed
for that?

Tony

Tony Raven <junk@raven-family.com> wrote:

: On the Netmeter Options/General tab you can select the network interface
: to monitor. Just choose the appropriate network adapter from the drop
: down list.

That doesn't work! Local traffic (within the LAN) *AND* ADSL Internet traffic
share the SAME Ethernet interface - and cannot be separated.

: Most of these options can be simply found with a right click and no more
: than two minutes clicking through the tabs. Is a manual really needed
: for that?

But you obviously don't understand it at all!!!

Brian McIlwrath wrote:
DU Meter does not distinguish between Internet and LAN traffic. I use a
modem/router. Not sure that I know of a prog that counts traffic on the
internet connection of a modem/router if Netmeter does not. I've three PCs
networked so I'm not sure how one of them would know about Internet traffic
to the other two.

"Edward" <edwardthornton@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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You could use SNMP software to monitor the WAN interface of
the router. Something like PRTG.

Edward wrote:

Look at PRTG. See Bug if you want a discount on purchase price of the
Pro version.

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Regards
Andy M Jenkins
UK Broadband Usergroup http://www.uk-bug.net

On 13 Oct 2004, in uk.telecom.broadband, Brian McIlwrath wrote:

Some routers can do this. The cheapo Ebuyer AR41 reports in/out by
IP address. However, that's cumulative since power up, so if there
are multiple disconnections, it isn't split by ISP session, and the
router might (infrequently) reboot, which would lose the details, a
snapshot in any case, when one updates the browser window (it makes
a small pop-up window with the stats listed by IP on your LAN). PGM

Help: I have Net Meter installed, but it doesn't do anything.

I can right-click on the tray item and click on Show Meter. Nothing
happens. When I then right-click again, I am offered Hide Meter. But
again, if I click on this, nothing happens. The totals window does
display, though.

How can I get the meter to show on my screen. I'm running Windows 98SE.
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Thoss

Brian McIlwrath wrote:
You would have to have something that ignored specific IP ranges and I'm
not sure there is anything around at the PC level that can do that.
There maybe at the server or router level

My comment was aimed at the people in the thread asking if there was a
manual for Netmeter, not your enquiry.

Tony

In article <f$EryVAJh7bBFw2g@thoss.plus.com>, thoss
<thoss@thoss.plus.com> writes
Problem now solved. The meter was outside the screen area (800 x 600).
When I set the display to a higher resolution, there was the meter in
the bottom right-hand corner.

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Thoss