bandwidth monitoring tools and utilities

[chicmagnet]

ohh i just chked its not there on dumeter.. .. i`m also using netlimiter. and this one shows me the break up of the 8 hours of incessant downloads ..!!.

 

[cyberwiz]

didnt get ur question pal... Used dumeter long time back..i can tell u for sure wat bwmeter does..it shows the downloaded MB's per hour..wat are u looking for? a per minute download record?

 

[mario_a]

Originally posted by trivisingh@Aug 2 2005, 09:14 PM
Can anybody suggest a good bandwidth monitor tool that will let me know my daily / monthly uploads and downloads and not too heavy on the system resourses also.
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NetMeter
http://readerror.gmxhome.de/

Light on system resources, fairly accurate, maintains your daily. weekly and monthly download/upload statistics, and best of all it is free.

Also, it's interface is modeled after DU Meter, so the look and feel of both apps is very similar.

I'm a big fan of freeware apps, and always prefer to use freeware/open source tools, instead of going for trial versions / cracks of commercial apps

 

[Raptor]

Originally posted by chicmagnet@Aug 3 2005, 03:36 PM
ohh i just chked its not there on dumeter.. .. i`m also using netlimiter. and this one shows me the break up of the 8 hours of incessant downloads ..!!.
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Right, DU meter does not show hourly downloads. How ever results of DU meter differ from those shown by my isp. I had read somewhere on this fourm that results from such software differ arnd 10% from those shown by ur isp, that difference can be quite large if down/uploads are high. I have been using DU meter from a long time, but it is useless as I always have to refer to results shown by BSNL service records.

 

[chicmagnet]

DU meter records everything that is beeing upped and downloaded.. even when you visit your router homepage. Du meter counts that too..ya you can set DU meter to calculate only your internet downloads though..will use bandwitdh meter and see the results..

 

[qwerty]

Before buying Dataone, I used Tata Indicom 500MB plan. I would use a tool called Netmeter. Their website is

http://readerror.gmxhome.de/

I found that difference between NetMeter and Tata Indicom billing would be less than 2 percent!

In my new experience with dataone, Netmeter shows more data transfer- may be because I am logging to modem many times.

Anyway, it is a useful tool.

Checkout that tool and post your comments here.

Note: I am not the publisher of that tool. I dont know whether it is harmful to your computer. If you know it has any harm, also please tell.

Thanking you
Shiva

 

[atuldd]

dumeter is good .......

 

[Apoorv Khatreja]

I suggest Datafox .

 

[caterpillar]

Datafox is excellent... it's just that it depends on the MTNL server to retrieve data.

For Linux users, there's a really good network traffic monitor called vnStat

To install (on Debian), from your terminal as root...

apt-get install vnstat

 

[sibot]

DU Meter