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Monitor your broadband traffic with SurplusMeter
Let's say
you've got a broadband connection at home, but your provider puts a cap on your monthly download allotment. That's all
well and good until it's the end of the month and you find yourself strapped (you torrent addict, you). Wouldn't it be
nice to get a warning before everything goes kaput?Check out SurplusMeter. It simply monitors all of your traffic (both up and down) and reports on how much you're using. You can view a daily average and more. Note that SurplusMeter only monitors traffic, not content, and doesn't "phone home" in any way.
SurplusMeter is free, and you can get the source code here.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Yuri Walkiw said 2:50PM on 4-19-2006
This is really great! Before I had to check usage on my ISP's clunky website, but now it's all contained within my computer! yay!
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Stinky McCrinkle said 2:56PM on 4-19-2006
All this does is monitor the traffic for the machine it's installed on. No way this can measure correctly in a multi-machine switched LAN environment.
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adam said 3:10PM on 4-19-2006
That's all well and all.. but as the previous poster said.. I mean really - how many people have just 1 PC at home these days? Especially people that bother to read this website.
My recommendation is for ANTG.. it's great, and can pull information with a little confiruation from any SNMP device. I use it to pull from a Linksys switch and it monitors all input and ouput traffic.
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Richard said 3:50PM on 4-19-2006
This is great, I've been looking for an app like this (Damn BT!). I have two computers connected via router but the other is Windows and therefore doesn't get much use. :p
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Ryan Gardner said 3:59PM on 4-19-2006
I wonder if the guy looked in his Utilities folder before making this program. Activity Monitor will do just about the same thing - minus a few features - if you just click on the "Network" tab of it.
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Lobe said 9:24PM on 4-19-2006
great! but now if Comcast would tell me what that limit is, instead of just calling and threatening me if I download "too much" again they will shut me off. Wouldn't even give a rough idea what "too much" is. Sounds like if you're in the top 1% you're in violation. So others need to start downloading more then? really stupid.
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Yuri Walkiw said 10:47PM on 4-19-2006
Ooooh yeah. Never thought of that. I'll just install it on all three machines, and add up the totals. But it's free so I'm not complaining.
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mrtotes said 8:55AM on 4-20-2006
Lobe
You need a more friendly ISP!! I haven't got close to my download limit yet - but I'll only get charged 2 per month if I need another Gb for some reason.
mrtotes
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