How to check your Internet usage (bandwidth) 18 October 2006 at 11:30AM edited 29 January 2011 at 2:26PM in Broadband & Internet Access 181 replies 306.9K views

Ialwaysgetdone

Well I've read every page of this thread and I still don't know how to find how much I've used over the past month. That business with checking the router only tells me what I'm using now (if you can even decipher it) not what I have used in the past month

luci

You can call your ISP and they may be able to tell you.

spud17

Ialwaysgetdone wrote: »

Well I've read every page of this thread and I still don't know how to find how much I've used over the past month. That business with checking the router only tells me what I'm using now (if you can even decipher it) not what I have used in the past month

So, assuming you have a version of Windows, have you downloaded and installed either NetMeter or possibly the better, NetWorx?

Rumman

Every time there is some download activity the netmeter pops up on my desktop, it is getting very irritating, any ideas on how to stop it from popping up every few minutes?

spud17

Rumman wrote: »

Every time there is some download activity the netmeter pops up on my desktop, it is getting very irritating, any ideas on how to stop it from popping up every few minutes?

I no longer use Netmeter, but have you checked the various options for display alerts etc, mine never acted in this manner.

oddyssey35

I've just downloaded and installed this 'tbb meter' through another series of links on this site and it doesn't work! 'Failed to initialise, Error no: 0xc0000135'. I'm trying to cut down on my downloads, so don't want to just try my luck with the next one. Any advice?

charlieheard

oddyssey35 wrote: »

I've just downloaded and installed this 'tbb meter' through another series of links on this site and it doesn't work! 'Failed to initialise, Error no: 0xc0000135'. I'm trying to cut down on my downloads, so don't want to just try my luck with the next one. Any advice?

I used to use Netmeter, but it doesn't discriminate between traffic between PCs on WiFi and internet traffic - this meant that sharing music, video or large files at home messed up the results.

Based on recommendations from reading this thread, I now use Networx, which has an option to ignore local traffic. I ran Networx in parallel with Netmeter for a few days to check it worked, and the figures were almost identical, (except for when I did transfer a file locally), so I now run Networx alone

Another good thing is that Networx is actually being developed at the moment, whereas Netmeter has been abandoned.

Gere12

Hi you can try to use protemac. com ProteMac Meter.It’s tool record of your network and Internet traffic.It’s must be helpful to your.It’s really good tool.

abisum

Thanks for the links guys. Now I know that i have been exceeding the monthly usage limit. All i have to do now is control myself. *Feeling urge to download stuff building*

dksakoma

What a fantastic piece of software, I love you