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R. G. Newbury wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Brian Wood wrote:
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<pre wrap="">R. G. Newbury wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap="">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.
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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...
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<pre wrap="">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.
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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.
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<pre wrap="">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.
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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
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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<br>
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I have a linux computer used as my internet router, so its outside link
is all the internet I use. <br>
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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<br>
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HTH<br>
- Richard<br>
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