Internet usage monitor?

Oiram

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I live in a commune with 8 other people, and we recently decided to get a 4 Mbps line and use Afrihost as our ISP.
The idea was that each of us would load an “internet usage monitor” on our computers, and in the beginning of the month each one would pay their for the amount they are going to use .

The problem is that I can’t find any good freeware (or pirated) monitors! Most monitor the time spent online, while others like ShaPlus monitors the network traffic, giving inflated usages.

A plus point is that we each know each other personally, so at least nobody is going to be spiteful and go over their cap or reset their counters.

Any advice would be helpful.
 
Why don't let everybody just buy their own caps instead of sharing a cap?
 
Why don't u just all get your own Afrihost account each and save yourself the hassle? You can run 8 simultenous PPPOE sessions on your line.
 
Another app that can work is called Networx. It has an option to ignore local traffic ( probably traffic withing the same subnet), so the counters should be accurate for internet usage.

Best of all. Its FREE :)
 
Even Netlimiter Monitor will work. Its freeware

This works like a charm. You can have separate monitoring for LAN, internet and local. I strongly recommend the freebie.
 
Here... newsbreak! Pictures of Neotel's data centre usage monitor!

Abacus-Phone--20560.jpg
 
Using windows 7 X64.

Tried to install netlimiter monitor yesterday and got known compatibility warning.
Then I got an error I need Win 2000 at least to run it. WTF.
 
So I would guess the answer now would be MWEB ? That would be a fixed monthly cost divided by 8 people ;-)
Also I know you can run scripts on some routers, that may also be a possibility

lastly, I have seen a person used this (but not used it myself) http://www.bwmonitor.com/
R100 or so each ...
 
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