bandwidth monitor?

richard plumb · 15-01-2009, 9:55 AM

Just had an email from Demon telling me I broke their FUP and have now been throttled to 128kb/s download between 9am and 11pm. Yes, I know, schedule my downloads and all that.

Is there something i can download on the mac that can monitor my downloads, either on a rolling 30 day basis (what demon uses) or a simple day by day/week level?

Is there anything that can do that for my whole network to cover eg PS3, wifi radio etc?

Also it'd need to know whats a 'real' download from the internet as opposed to other network activity - eg time machine backups, streaming across the network etc.

surprised the ISP doesn't have somewhere you can log in and have a look

Rafe · 15-01-2009, 9:59 AM

Software wise I would very much doubt you can pick something up that would cover all of your networked equipment (I could be wrong).

*Tenex* · 15-01-2009, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by richard plumb

Just had an email from Demon telling me I broke their FUP and have now been throttled to 128kb/s download between 9am and 11pm. Yes, I know, schedule my downloads and all that.

Is there something i can download on the mac that can monitor my downloads, either on a rolling 30 day basis (what demon uses) or a simple day by day/week level?

Transmission does some of that (as well as throttling etc). The stats aren't complicated but you can keep session and aggregate totals though not quite as complete as you want. Won't cover the network though.

koobs · 15-01-2009, 10:36 AM

You could try SurplusMeter

richard plumb · 15-01-2009, 11:26 AM

I doubt the wifi radio uses that much. 128kb streams a couple of hours per day? I can just work it out and roughly allocate that.

I used to keep a note when I downloaded big demos on the PS3 (anything over a gig) but stopped doing that after a while. Might start that up again.

then it'd just be the computer that is the main user, and I can schedule newsleecher to only run during off-peak times (can I do the same with transmission)?

baldrick · 15-01-2009, 11:34 AM

Does your router have this info eg. total uploaded/downloaded since last reset? Mine doesn't but I'm sure I have seen this info on some models?

Zen do have a web interface where you can log in and check your usage...