Download monitor for internet radio?

Marty999

I am on the basic Sky package which allows me up to 2 Gb of data per month, and I use the download monitor from Broadband Choices to check my usage. But this does not record any data received when I am using my Soundbridge for internet radio, only data received by my PC. Does anybody know how I can check how much data my internet radio is consuming?

Hungerdunger

There are lots of programs which will do this for you. Personally I use, and am happy with, Down2Home which you can find here. Remember that it will only monitor the computer it is installed on, so if you use more than one, install it on each and add the results together.

albertross_2

Once configured with admin/sky, this (should be able to) monitor the total number of bytes is going through your router, provided you don't switch it off. See the telnet screen.

http://www.vwlowen.co.uk/internet/files.htm

Marty999

Thanks for your reply Hungerdunger but I really want something that can monitor my Soundbridge downloads too, not just my PC downloads.

And thanks too to Albertross - this software looks as if it should give me what I want but I can't work out how to configure it. And once I shut my PC down, it stops recording any data. Any ideas please?

albertross_2

click on the cog icon, top left, and enter your router username and password, eg,

admin
sky

on the telnet screen, enable telnet ( Not tried it with the sky firmware/router, so can't guarantee it will work, but won't do any harm to try it)

then click the green > icon to start.



the router maintains a count of all data transmitted/received since it was last switched on, so it doesn't matter if you switch the pc off.

buglawton

If $ky wants to cap you by usage (and they must know what it is exactly), why don't they provide the appropriate monitoring tool? Perhaps if you log into your $ky account you can see it.