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[mothersruin]

Hi All

A I've been around on the internet for many, many years, but only now have gone ADSL. What a difference!

A couple of questions:

I notice some of you have an idea of how many gigs you've used up over a period. Is there a programme that gives you a "live" indication of what you are using? my connection in the past used to show how many bytes were flowing in each direction, but it shows "packets" now (using a router: maybe I changed something on the local area connection status panel. It also doesn't show FTP traffic). Can my ISP provide this? is it supposed to be standard? Will it cost me?

 

[prinsk]

I think what you are after is discussed in the following thread. An excellent program. Take a look.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=24500

 

[mothersruin]

I think what you are after is discussed in the following thread. An excellent program. Take a look.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=24500

Many thanks. It's up and running. Can't believe how much I'ves used up in a couple of days.

 

[krycor]

Out of curiosity how much did you use, num people using, and is your windows set to auto-update ?

 

[mothersruin]

0.483 gig since Monday. But then I've downloading a lot. Stuff that just used to take days. Might not be a lot to you guys or it might even be average. Should imagine it will drop in the next week or so.

As a matter of interest how much does playing a game (eg AOEIII or DoomIII and the like) take? What is the average time for a game on line?

 

[PostmanPot]

mothersruin: download this too - www.dumeter.com

 

[martmeister]

The one nice thing about DU Meter is you can see realtime speeds as well as having a more up to date total of you have down/uploaded cos the ISP isn't always that up to date. SAOL can be 2-3 days behind.

There's a stopwatch util you can use which gives your MAX and AVG speeds over a predefined period.

 

[Reptile2025]

try netmeter same as dumeter but free