Software (or hardware) to monitor internet usage ?
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I've been receiving message from my ISP that I'm busting my internet quota (60gig/month which I think is on the low side in 2020 ) My ISP only show total usage by months, no breakdown on what I actually spend it on (which site/service). My router (tp-link archer C7) does show traffic, but not which site/service I use. Is there a good hardware/software solution to show what I'm actually spending my bandwidth on? My ecosystem is simple, Mac Laptop for (mostly) youtube and social media stuff and Windows PC for online gaming (average 1.5 hours per day) I rarely use netflix or other streaming services from my TV. I'd like something that I can run on both OSes if possible; but that will not collect data from both computers. (afaik). Any susgestions ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Some good suggestions here: The Best Apps To Monitor Internet Usage[^] :-\
there are plenty of lists out there. looking for something people here would be using.
I'd rather be phishing!
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there are plenty of lists out there. looking for something people here would be using.
I'd rather be phishing!
Your Cajun spelling confused me :-\
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Any susgestions ?
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I've seen glasswire advertised a lot; I will look at it.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Your Cajun spelling confused me :-\
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Any susgestions ?
is sucksgestions better ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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I've been receiving message from my ISP that I'm busting my internet quota (60gig/month which I think is on the low side in 2020 ) My ISP only show total usage by months, no breakdown on what I actually spend it on (which site/service). My router (tp-link archer C7) does show traffic, but not which site/service I use. Is there a good hardware/software solution to show what I'm actually spending my bandwidth on? My ecosystem is simple, Mac Laptop for (mostly) youtube and social media stuff and Windows PC for online gaming (average 1.5 hours per day) I rarely use netflix or other streaming services from my TV. I'd like something that I can run on both OSes if possible; but that will not collect data from both computers. (afaik). Any susgestions ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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is sucksgestions better ?
I'd rather be phishing!
Much better :thumbsup: But now I'm wondering if Canadians think being called "Cajun" is a racist remark :doh:
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Much better :thumbsup: But now I'm wondering if Canadians think being called "Cajun" is a racist remark :doh:
it's not racist, it is just wrong. [Cajun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajuns) is a real thing.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Go to unlimited plan and care not. Didn't think too many people would go for a cap. Very rare here in New Zealand.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
that will be it. but I'd like to know how I spend my time on the internet.
I'd rather be phishing!
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that will be it. but I'd like to know how I spend my time on the internet.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I've been receiving message from my ISP that I'm busting my internet quota (60gig/month which I think is on the low side in 2020 ) My ISP only show total usage by months, no breakdown on what I actually spend it on (which site/service). My router (tp-link archer C7) does show traffic, but not which site/service I use. Is there a good hardware/software solution to show what I'm actually spending my bandwidth on? My ecosystem is simple, Mac Laptop for (mostly) youtube and social media stuff and Windows PC for online gaming (average 1.5 hours per day) I rarely use netflix or other streaming services from my TV. I'd like something that I can run on both OSes if possible; but that will not collect data from both computers. (afaik). Any susgestions ?
I'd rather be phishing!
First I though you were talking about your smartphone subscription: Gee, why don't you do those huge downloads from your PC? Then I realized that you were talking about your fixed line subscription, not your smartphone. Last night I downloaded 70 GB on my fixed line within a couple of hours... I don't think any ISP around here would dare to limit the download volume on a fixed line. It doesn't cost the ISP a cent more to let you use the capacity physically available (for 4G/5G wireless access there is a real bandwidth shortage, and that can't be cured by just pulling a few more optical fibers). Sure: I must accept that sometimes, a single web server cannot fully utilize my 100 Mbps fiber connection, but two or three independent transfers fill up my subscription line to capacity. In high traffic periods, maybe my ISP's outwards connections are overloaded, but I have never really experienced that as a real capacity problem. Why would a fixed line ISP want to limit my data volume? Where is the capacity bottleneck justifying it? Or is it just some artificial limitation imposed on meto make you pay more if I want more, even though the capacity has been available all the time? Historical note: I once worked for a manufacturer of "supermini"-computers (in the 1980s, supermini was a well known concept - the VAX class). One 32-bit CPU had been marketed, the "ND-500", but the market wanted a range from cheap models to high-range. The company had no resources to develop multiple CPU architectures for varying demands. So it was seriously discussed whether to release a "low-end" model with lots of wait cycles in the microcode (in RAM) to slow it down. This was rejected: Removing CPU cache would reduce the component cost by about USD 50K and half the effective speed of the CPU for the "low end" ND-520, compared to the "mid-range" ND-540. That made it a "real", non-artifical, restriction of the speed obtained. A few months after the introduction of the ND-5x0 range I held a course for our customers. One student was close to physically attacking me when I told her that the ND-560 her company had bought was no faster than an ND-540 - nothing but a two-rack model, capable of accomodating more I/O-equipment than the single-rack ND-540. She insisted that her company had been fooled, been tricked into bying the more expensive two-rack setup. (No, she never could show to any documentation indicating that the ND-560 would be any faster than an ND-540.) So: What the ISP/vendor says about power and capacity should
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Seems like an app to monitor the bandwidth used on a given computer. If I have a mixture of desktops, servers, laptops, phones, tablets, game consoles, etc...that's going to be woefully inadequate. My router has a page that shows realtime bandwidth usage, and I can often see that *something* on my network is downloading as fast as my connection allows - and I have no idea what that might be. To be useful, these tools needs to start by telling you what device is sucking up the bandwidth. Then worry about individual apps. (so in my case, the first step is to map out what devices own the MAC addresses displayed by my router...something I've been putting for, oh...years now?)
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I've been receiving message from my ISP that I'm busting my internet quota (60gig/month which I think is on the low side in 2020 ) My ISP only show total usage by months, no breakdown on what I actually spend it on (which site/service). My router (tp-link archer C7) does show traffic, but not which site/service I use. Is there a good hardware/software solution to show what I'm actually spending my bandwidth on? My ecosystem is simple, Mac Laptop for (mostly) youtube and social media stuff and Windows PC for online gaming (average 1.5 hours per day) I rarely use netflix or other streaming services from my TV. I'd like something that I can run on both OSes if possible; but that will not collect data from both computers. (afaik). Any susgestions ?
I'd rather be phishing!
So you can keep track of all devices, look at Ubiquiti Unifi. Replace your WiFi router with a Dream Machine (that's what it's called) and turn on DPI and you get a good breakdown of the types of data and what is causing it. Use it at a few clients and recently converted at home and find it really useful, despite being on an unlimited plan, just like to have an idea what's going on. Rod
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Seems like an app to monitor the bandwidth used on a given computer. If I have a mixture of desktops, servers, laptops, phones, tablets, game consoles, etc...that's going to be woefully inadequate. My router has a page that shows realtime bandwidth usage, and I can often see that *something* on my network is downloading as fast as my connection allows - and I have no idea what that might be. To be useful, these tools needs to start by telling you what device is sucking up the bandwidth. Then worry about individual apps. (so in my case, the first step is to map out what devices own the MAC addresses displayed by my router...something I've been putting for, oh...years now?)
dandy72 wrote:
Seems like an app to monitor the bandwidth used on a given computer.
Yup.
dandy72 wrote:
If I have a mixture of desktops, servers, laptops, phones, tablets, game consoles, etc...that's going to be woefully inadequate
Can you temporarily set one up as a server, then install something on that? It's only hours and hours of work, but when you get into something like that, time flies
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've been receiving message from my ISP that I'm busting my internet quota (60gig/month which I think is on the low side in 2020 ) My ISP only show total usage by months, no breakdown on what I actually spend it on (which site/service). My router (tp-link archer C7) does show traffic, but not which site/service I use. Is there a good hardware/software solution to show what I'm actually spending my bandwidth on? My ecosystem is simple, Mac Laptop for (mostly) youtube and social media stuff and Windows PC for online gaming (average 1.5 hours per day) I rarely use netflix or other streaming services from my TV. I'd like something that I can run on both OSes if possible; but that will not collect data from both computers. (afaik). Any susgestions ?
I'd rather be phishing!
I was chasing this kind of problem recently and figured out, by a process of elimination, that BigTelco had been charging the home internet gigabytes for the traffic to the TV set top box. It's all IP traffic and they normally don't bill for packets for the set top box mac address. Until they screw it up. BigTelco's web site was able to show a nearly live version of this month's usage numbers, so I turned stuff off until the numbers stopped changing.
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dandy72 wrote:
Seems like an app to monitor the bandwidth used on a given computer.
Yup.
dandy72 wrote:
If I have a mixture of desktops, servers, laptops, phones, tablets, game consoles, etc...that's going to be woefully inadequate
Can you temporarily set one up as a server, then install something on that? It's only hours and hours of work, but when you get into something like that, time flies
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. The impression I got was that the app was designed to monitor the bandwidth usage for a given computer. If you want to get a complete picture of where your bandwidth is being used, you need something that monitors the router that all traffic is going through.
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I'm not sure I understand what you mean. The impression I got was that the app was designed to monitor the bandwidth usage for a given computer. If you want to get a complete picture of where your bandwidth is being used, you need something that monitors the router that all traffic is going through.
dandy72 wrote:
you need something that monitors the router that all traffic is going through
Or use a computer as a server. That gives you a lot more options, because you can install a lot more monitoring software on it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've been receiving message from my ISP that I'm busting my internet quota (60gig/month which I think is on the low side in 2020 ) My ISP only show total usage by months, no breakdown on what I actually spend it on (which site/service). My router (tp-link archer C7) does show traffic, but not which site/service I use. Is there a good hardware/software solution to show what I'm actually spending my bandwidth on? My ecosystem is simple, Mac Laptop for (mostly) youtube and social media stuff and Windows PC for online gaming (average 1.5 hours per day) I rarely use netflix or other streaming services from my TV. I'd like something that I can run on both OSes if possible; but that will not collect data from both computers. (afaik). Any susgestions ?
I'd rather be phishing!
I'm sure there are going to be more sophisticated answers, but get a better router would be mine. I have a nicer Asus router, and it shows bandwidth used, and you can sort info by device (so you can see what device is using the most) and you can sort it by generalized web-traffic (ie: hulu, netflix, internet browsing, etc), so you can see what services are using the most bandwidth. I'm sure some of the nicer routers will give you similar info. It's not super in-depth like some dedicated monitoring/analysis tool is, but when I had the same problem, I was able to see that I was burning up 10's of GB of Netflix, as it was the elephant in the room bandwidth wise. I went to the site, and told it to lower it's quality to the next lower tier, and checked back after a few days and the usage amount was more inline. I think it was sending me high bitrate feed since my internet speed was so good, but it was causing a problem with the cap. I also was able to pinpoint a specific computer that was using more bandwidth than made sense. I believe the online backup was stuck in a loop and causing it to run constantly for a period of time. Rebooted the machine, and the usage went down to normal.
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I've been receiving message from my ISP that I'm busting my internet quota (60gig/month which I think is on the low side in 2020 ) My ISP only show total usage by months, no breakdown on what I actually spend it on (which site/service). My router (tp-link archer C7) does show traffic, but not which site/service I use. Is there a good hardware/software solution to show what I'm actually spending my bandwidth on? My ecosystem is simple, Mac Laptop for (mostly) youtube and social media stuff and Windows PC for online gaming (average 1.5 hours per day) I rarely use netflix or other streaming services from my TV. I'd like something that I can run on both OSes if possible; but that will not collect data from both computers. (afaik). Any susgestions ?
I'd rather be phishing!
I'm sure there are going to be more sophisticated answers, but get a better router would be mine. I have a nicer Asus router, and it shows bandwidth used, and you can sort info by device (so you can see what device is using the most) and you can sort it by generalized web-traffic (ie: hulu, netflix, internet browsing, etc), so you can see what services are using the most bandwidth. I'm sure some of the nicer routers will give you similar info. It's not super in-depth like some dedicated monitoring/analysis tool is, but when I had the same problem, I was able to see that I was burning up 10's of GB of Netflix, as it was the elephant in the room bandwidth wise. I went to the site, and told it to lower it's quality to the next lower tier, and checked back after a few days and the usage amount was more inline. I think it was sending me high bitrate feed since my internet speed was so good, but it was causing a problem with the cap. I also was able to pinpoint a specific computer that was using more bandwidth than made sense. I believe the online backup was stuck in a loop and causing it to run constantly for a period of time. Rebooted the machine, and the usage went down to normal.
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I've been receiving message from my ISP that I'm busting my internet quota (60gig/month which I think is on the low side in 2020 ) My ISP only show total usage by months, no breakdown on what I actually spend it on (which site/service). My router (tp-link archer C7) does show traffic, but not which site/service I use. Is there a good hardware/software solution to show what I'm actually spending my bandwidth on? My ecosystem is simple, Mac Laptop for (mostly) youtube and social media stuff and Windows PC for online gaming (average 1.5 hours per day) I rarely use netflix or other streaming services from my TV. I'd like something that I can run on both OSes if possible; but that will not collect data from both computers. (afaik). Any susgestions ?
I'd rather be phishing!
A movie will probably average around 4GB; HD, don't know. 10 or 15 "half-watched" movies, combined with the rest, and there goes your quota. Then there's browser versus an "app" watching movies. I'm convinced the browsers are way too busy, even when not navigating. Just idling, they use more resources than Visual Studio.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food