How to check your Internet usage (bandwidth)

eponymous · 28 January 2007 at 12:00PM

http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/
will do much the same thing and you get a month's free trial.
It has established how much of an Internet saddo I am, since I've exceeded 5GB already this month. (a one off, as I spent two weeks working from home) but at least it gives me proof positive to switch from my 27.99 Orange Unlimited account to one that will be a tenner less next month!

Janeyjaz · 9 February 2007 at 10:33AM

anybody any idea how we woul monitor the useage on xbox 360 live, in our house we have 2 desktops a laptop and the 360, we are thinking about ending our connction with AOL and going to the Sky Max option, as AOL is very slow now.
Thanks for any help

mrJ_5 · 9 February 2007 at 10:37AM

sounds like you would be using a router - most routers have some sort of statistics monitoring service on them - normally you can access your router by typing in http://192.168.0.1 in your web browser

most of the time, everything is measured in bytes, so remember to divide by 1024 for KB, 1024 again for MB, and 1024 a third time for GB

hope this helps

Janeyjaz · 10 February 2007 at 11:36AM

Thank you, have tried this but at the moment the connection is timing out, so I will keep trying

Janeyjaz · 12 February 2007 at 3:37PM

thought I'd contact them and get an anwser from them - live help - took me a whole day to get to correspond with an Indian guy who was no help - he didn't know and just kept giving me apologies. Anyway I then tried ringing them after looking the phone number up on say no to 0870, through to another Indian guy after about 7 minutes, he gave me my router address ip and I checked it, so I think I will ditch AOL - 29.99 a month for not a very good service, I need to monitor my useage first though

Milarky · 22 February 2007 at 10:27PM

I've downloaded NetMeter and it's running fine now - except that it appears to double the download speed (i.e. my BB is 1MEG - 128K but the Meter shows a constant DL speed in the '250 KB/s' range) from what it should be.

(Any thoughts on this?)

MickKnipfler · 29 March 2007 at 6:05PM

I found the invisible sticky.....

Sorry was in the office and just needed the answer.

njtkc · 28 April 2007 at 9:21PM

Brilliant just posted a thread regarding this.......

Stuartli · 16 May 2007 at 5:42PM

I use Tautology Bandwidth Meter - does exactly what it says on the tin and provides daily and monthly downloads and uploads information. See:

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/link/tbm/

SuperG_2 · 17 July 2007 at 1:56PM

Hmm, Maybe I've just been luck but my ISP has never charged me for going over my allowance. (Wanadoo/Orange) Any other users had a similar experience?
Still though, I think NetMeter is great. Been using it for a few months - Just in case. You never can be too sure of anything!

How to check your Internet usage (bandwidth)

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