How to track internet usage?

[joppenheim]

Hi there

Does anybody know how I can track my home's internet usage?

I have subscribed to Telkom's 50GB LTE home package and it works great, but its finished. 50Gb in 27 days!!!
There are a 5 people and multiple services that use it on a daily basis but even 50Gb sounds like a lot.

Is there any software I can use to track the internet usage of my home network?
I need to know which devices are consuming internet and which websites are "feeding" them!

The internet is provided by an LTE wifi router with limited firmware.

Any help appreciated!

J

 

[Messugga]

50gb really isn't a lot. I hit a couple hundred per month without even trying.

YouTube scales to your available bandwidth. A FHD video can clock in at hundreds of MB pretty easily.

Also check for software updates and similar.

 

[Deadmanza]

50GB OMG! That is almost the whole INTERwebz!

 

[Messugga]

Total Sent(Mb): 31381.85
Total Received(Mb): 152471.38
Total Combined (Mb): 183853.23

And my main pc was turned off for most of this period. Still have to download some recent Steam purchases.

 

[Nerfherder]

Well if you are not doing p2p then 50 is plenty.

Isn't you tube zero rated as well ?

 

[Messugga]

Well if you are not doing p2p then 50 is plenty.

Isn't you tube zero rated as well ?

Netflix. And The Witcher is like 35gb.

 

[kang]

50gb is nothing. But well done for making it last 27 days. I can't even manage that in 10 days, without torrents.

Log in to your router and send a blank sms to 188. I'm on the Telkom wireless LTE deal. Not sure if the sms is the same for you.
I also have the Network Meter gadget on my desktop...for windows 10.

 

[$m@Rt@$$]

50gb is nothing. But well done for making it last 27 days. I can't even manage that in 10 days, without torrents.

Log in to your router and send a blank sms to 188. I'm on the Telkom wireless LTE deal. Not sure if the sms is the same for you.
I also have the Network Meter gadget on my desktop...for windows 10.

Yeah, if I queue to p2p then I hit 75 - 100 in a day. Maklik maklik...

 

[kianm]

I see a lot of bragging around here

 

[kianm]

Here is mine

 

[agentrfr]

Between the eleventy macs (don't ask - ugh) and my show backups, two of us internet savvy users easily do 600+ gigs a month...

@OP don't bother, internet usage will go up exponentially with time. 50GB is nothing. Rather get a fixed line (fibre/vdsl) and an uncapped account. The extra R100 a month between 200gigs and uncapped isn't worth the stress of being worried you'll "run out".

 

[koeksGHT]

For desktop PC I use this

https://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/

 

[newklear]

^5 for what KoeksGHT shared, networx is simple to use but needs to be installed on every device to monitor bandwidth usage.

In your situation joppenheim, having LTE through a wireless and wired router makes visualising data usage difficult to watch unless you are monitoring on the router or host itself, i.e changing your network setup to have a node in between the LTE Router and your BYOD's on your home network.

Other than that, have a look through some of these tools, some may help

 

[koeksGHT]

^5 for what KoeksGHT shared, networx is simple to use but needs to be installed on every device to monitor bandwidth usage.

In your situation joppenheim, having LTE through a wireless and wired router makes visualising data usage difficult to watch unless you are monitoring on the router or host itself, i.e changing your network setup to have a node in between the LTE Router and your BYOD's on your home network.

Other than that, have a look through some of these tools, some may help

It's actually very interesting watching in real time how Netflix/YouTube/cs/dota use bandwidth.

Netflix Stream HD