Bandwidth usage accuracy

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Hey all

Anyone know of anyway to verify bandwidth usage monitoring?

I am a heavy user and do indeed top up. I use a bandwidth monitor app and its results do not come close to the iBurst "official" monitor.

I topped up again Tuesday with another 1GB... received slower than usual connection speeds and assumed it was due to the weather... and this morning I see that AGAIN it has evaporated.

My use since top-up shows 300MB (up+down) on my bandwidth app.

What's up???

Is there anyway I can force iBurst to double check their side?

What can I do...

(credit card in hand, about to wait 100 hours to purchase more.... load. load. load!!)

Any ideas????
 
Have you thought about downloading a file of know size eg over a weekend. I am not sure of when IBurst resets their bandwidth checkers but let's say it is Midnight every day. So at 1am you start downloading a 50MB file and don't do ANY other work, uploading/downloading during that day. Check your bandwidth usage again the following day and see if it is close.
 
Try using BWMeter to monitor your internal and external bandwidth usage.

Do a search for it on the forum and you'll find the download link that I posted a few weeks ago..
 
That's just it. I AM using BWMeter at the moment. I topped up with 1GB, reset "stopwatch" and statistics.

BWMeter says a total of 359MB used.

Iburst says 1GB gone. Cap reached. Tada.

I shall try the 50MB file test as mentioned above.

This is troubling me. There MUST be a way to implement accurate and reliable bandwidth usage monitors for this service. I just KNOW that something on iBurst's side has gone twitchy. It does not feel right.

...
 
You are measuring both up & down links with the 3rd party software right? That is really fishy.
 
Happens to me alot to. I dont use heavily until the end of the month and now with this magic trick my cap does i cant use heavily because ITS NOT THERE.
 
Strange since on my system BWMeter and iBursts bw monitor show almost the same usage give or take a few mb, but with a difference from 359mb and 1GB there has to be something wrong unless you never had BWMeter running all the time.
 
Their BW monitoring software is absolute Crap.
I unplugged my modem for 2 days, and over those 2 days, my bandwidth dropped by 900Mb !
On the flipside though, towards the middle of the month, I buy another 3Gb, and end up downloading 8Gb or more before their software realises I've used up the 3Gb I purchased.
 
I have to say that I have found the bandwidth monitor to be pretty consistent with my usage.

Shaun - What do you mean by overhead?
 
Jongi said:
Shaun - What do you mean by overhead?
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Also would like to know what exactly that would be.

Anyways i've found about a 5% difference between my BWmeter and the online monitor. dunno if that sounds like overheads?
 
PDonut said:
Also would like to know what exactly that would be.

Anyways i've found about a 5% difference between my BWmeter and the online monitor. dunno if that sounds like overheads?
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Overhead is the data used for packet headers etc. There's no way it could account for the difference between 359MB and 1GB though.
 
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