[mythtv-users] OT: Track Total Downloads for Bandwidth Limit

[Richard Woelk]

R. G. Newbury wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
>   
>> R. G. Newbury wrote:
>>     
>>> My house is halfway between 2 local switches and I get only 288 kbps up 
>>> or down with DSL.
>>>
>>> I'm wondering about getting Rogers "Portable Internet Basic" which would 
>>> be twice as fast at the same price. However that package has a Monthly 
>>> Bandwidth Activity Limit of 10GB.
>>>
>>> Can anyone suggest a program which will allow me to track and total my 
>>> downloads (including daily SchedulesDirect mythfilldatabase). There must 
>>> be some sort of program, and I may end up with a bruise on my forehead 
>>> when someone points out the obvious to me, but at the moment, I'm stumped.
>>>       
>> I believe that Roger's basic service has only 64k upstream speed, pretty
>> limited. The speeds quoted for downstream are "up to", and subject to
>> major slowdowns during peak usage periods.
>>     
>
> I don't care about upstream at all. And yes, downstream needs to be 
> administered with together with copious quantities of salt. But twice 
> the speed at the same price does sound nice...
>
>
>   
>> I've also read of folks complaining that rain and other bad weather can
>> cause slowdowns or actual outages.  Personally I would refuse to
>> purchase any service with a bandwidth cap, mainly to discourage that
>> sort of anti-social behavior.
>>     
>
> True, And I do not KNOW if there is an antenna on the cell tower which I 
> can see from my roof, but I think so.
>
> Yes, I don't like the idea of a cap either. You are correct: it is 
> anti-social. Moreover it is clearly a gouging control. But if I never 
> get close to the cap, it is as if it did not exist.
>
>   
>> As long as you are aware of the limitations, and are OK with that, go
>> for it.
>>
>> As for keeping track of usage, ifconfig will tell you the total packets
>> through an interface.
>>     
>
> Well ifconfig is a little on the raw side of what I was thinking 
> about.And it is unclear what period is being reported:
>
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:14658684 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:18058565 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:452591535 (431.6 MiB)  TX bytes:1497872051 (1.3 GiB)
>
>
> But vnstat looks interesting. Thanks to whoever recommended it.
>
> Geoff
>
>   

gkrellm reads the ifconfig bytes and keeps its own records categorized 
by month, week, & day. Click on the little grey button at the bottom 
right of the eth graph

I have a linux computer used as my internet router, so its outside link 
is all the internet I use.

10GB cap, ouch, I'd have a lot of trouble staying under that, my average 
is around 80GB, and I've hit 300GB in a month

HTH
- Richard




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