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How to check your Internet usage (bandwidth)
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Thanks, just downloaded and installed Bitmeter. It has a good rating on cnet reviews. Problem is it's not recording any internet traffic despite having restarted windows and having the option to start the program on start up enabled?
Services like speed test, bandwidth.
However I find I am checking my bandwidth usage on my ISP's website so worth checking if your ISP has similar.
Right click tray icon, Hide Meter.
Thank you. So simple when you know how
does something different, allowing you to increase and reduce the priority of up to 5 applications (on the free version). So I set up spotify to have a maximum of 0.01kb outgoing, thus saving on the p2p element of that program! You could do the same with bittorrent though it is a bit selfish I suppose!
It's useful as well to see if any programs are using lots of bandwidth which don't need to.