how do you know if...

Download say a 100mb file and see if it used your international or local cap.

I know you've got DO3 so to check if it used your international cap, go to Telkom's bandwith monitir site and then also check your local cap's bandwith site and see which one the 100mb has been used on.
 
Open up the status dialogs of your 2 connections.
Check bytes received.
Open local website and check bytes received is mainly on appropriate connection.
Same with international website.
 
I've been thinking recently if the whole routesentry setup is all worth it for just normal browsing. Cause even with routesentry, my int acc is also being used a bit, even for mybb. I dont download much, and for 6gig int I use only 1gig local.
 
I would say RS is a MUST have for any gamer that plays online and if you're a heavy downloader who uses usenet, otherwise personally I don't have any use for it at all.
 
HerZeLeiD said:
I wouldn't worry about it. Route Sentry always works :)
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Discovered this weekend that RS wasn't working as expected and everything for the last few days was going through international. :(

Was Windows 7's fault - or my lack of understanding thereof. :o It was the "Use default gateway on remote network" option (ticked by default) on my pppoe connection that caused it. Not RS's fault. :)
 
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lerouxjj said:
Can RS be used on ONE ADSL connection?
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No. It needs two separate connections.

Are you referring to one account that has international (blended) and then switches to local once cap reached (eg Telkom's DO)? If so, then no, you can't split those on one connection. Will need two accounts/connections.
 
When you're using RouteSentry, make sure to get an updated list of local IP's!

One way of testing, is to see the path that the packets will follow to a certain destination. You can do that by to running Command Prompt (start | run | cmd) and then type in tracert <domain>, eg. tracert www.supersport.co.za & tracert www.google.co.za. The second node's IP address can be used to distinguish if the traffic is going through the local or international account.
Here you can see two different IP's for the second node. (note that google.co.za isn't local!):
traceroute to www.supersport.co.za (196.28.65.76), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 0.746 ms 1.702 ms 2.000 ms
2 196-209-1-1-ndn-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za (196.209.1.1) 22.923 ms 25.843 ms 28.025 ms

traceroute to www.google.co.za (209.85.229.104), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 0.746 ms 1.702 ms 2.000 ms
2 dsl-241-192-01.telkomadsl.co.za (41.241.192.1) 211.633 ms 212.362 ms 212.826 ms​

Another way of seeing which connection is used, is simply to check the PPPoE connection statistics for the Bytes Sent/Received. This works nicely if you have both PPPoE connections created from your PC.

If you have one or more PPPoE connections created from your router, then I would suggest to enable SNMP (simple network management protocol) and then get a SNMP traffic monitor application like PRTG Traffic Grapher to monitor the data sent & received via any router connection (including eth0 [for Ethernet], br0 [for bridge], ppp0 [PPPoE #0], ppp1, etc.). PRTG Traffic Grapher can run as a service and monitor the data sent & received in real-time and report the totals or current rate of data sent/received.

The last option that I know of, is to telnet in to the router. eg. Telnet 192.168.1.1, type in the router username & password. Then type in 'ifconfig' and look for the ppp0 & ppp1 connections' sent (Sx) & received (Rx) totals :)
By checking these values you should be able to establish if your downloads/browsing are in fact going through the right channel. Unfortunately I can't tell you which PPPoE connection is for local & which is not!
 
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