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Monthly Braodband Usage Monitor...
I keep getting stung by my monthly limit on broadband...
Is there any (Decent) software out there that lives in my taskbar and monitors my internet usage I;m after somthing that gives me a daily, weekly and monthly download usage and logs it for a upto 12 months. I don't want any fancy graphics, somthing that looks like windows it perfectly fine. It has to be FREEWARE. I'm not using somthing for 30 days then it stop working, or somthing that does not have all the features and pester me to buy the full version. Also i'm not after somthing that downloads other software like weatherbug and all that crpa that I do not need. Surely there must be somthing out there... -- Thanks, Andrew Makinson www.evcomputing.com www.iowcomputers.net/websiteforum/index.php |
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On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:07:48 GMT, "Dom" mangled
uncounted electrons thus: I keep getting stung by my monthly limit on broadband... Is there any (Decent) software out there that lives in my taskbar and monitors my internet usage I;m after somthing that gives me a daily, weekly and monthly download usage and logs it for a upto 12 months. I don't want any fancy graphics, somthing that looks like windows it perfectly fine. It has to be FREEWARE. I'm not using somthing for 30 days then it stop working, or somthing that does not have all the features and pester me to buy the full version. Also i'm not after somthing that downloads other software like weatherbug and all that crpa that I do not need. Surely there must be somthing out there... I use BM Extreme... http://www.lp23.com/bmextreme/ Tells me what's what, as it were, in a no-nonsense sort of way... There's a pay version as well, although I haven't found a need for anything more than the free one gives me. Martin D. Pay ADSL enthusiast... ^_- |
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Now thats what i'm talking about... no nonsense and tells me what I need -
no friggin memory intensive display - and its easy to use... Thanks Martin... -- Thanks, Andrew Makinson www.evcomputing.com www.iowcomputers.net/websiteforum/index.php "Martin D. Pay" wrote in message ... On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:07:48 GMT, "Dom" mangled uncounted electrons thus: I keep getting stung by my monthly limit on broadband... Is there any (Decent) software out there that lives in my taskbar and monitors my internet usage I;m after somthing that gives me a daily, weekly and monthly download usage and logs it for a upto 12 months. I don't want any fancy graphics, somthing that looks like windows it perfectly fine. It has to be FREEWARE. I'm not using somthing for 30 days then it stop working, or somthing that does not have all the features and pester me to buy the full version. Also i'm not after somthing that downloads other software like weatherbug and all that crpa that I do not need. Surely there must be somthing out there... I use BM Extreme... http://www.lp23.com/bmextreme/ Tells me what's what, as it were, in a no-nonsense sort of way... There's a pay version as well, although I haven't found a need for anything more than the free one gives me. Martin D. Pay ADSL enthusiast... ^_- |
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good question, but is there any way i can monitor total bandwith going
though my router without having to check individual pcs? "Dom" wrote in message ... I keep getting stung by my monthly limit on broadband... Is there any (Decent) software out there that lives in my taskbar and monitors my internet usage I;m after somthing that gives me a daily, weekly and monthly download usage and logs it for a upto 12 months. I don't want any fancy graphics, somthing that looks like windows it perfectly fine. It has to be FREEWARE. I'm not using somthing for 30 days then it stop working, or somthing that does not have all the features and pester me to buy the full version. Also i'm not after somthing that downloads other software like weatherbug and all that crpa that I do not need. Surely there must be somthing out there... -- Thanks, Andrew Makinson www.evcomputing.com www.iowcomputers.net/websiteforum/index.php |
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 08:32:54 GMT, "Veritech"
wrote: good question, but is there any way i can monitor total bandwith going though my router without having to check individual pcs? Monitor it FROM one of the PCs? No. It can't be done with a hardware router unless the router implicitly supports the feature through it's firmware. Setting up a (system-as-a-router) might be a possibility. |
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"Martin D. Pay" wrote in message ... On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:07:48 GMT, "Dom" mangled uncounted electrons thus: I keep getting stung by my monthly limit on broadband... Is there any (Decent) software out there that lives in my taskbar and monitors my internet usage I;m after somthing that gives me a daily, weekly and monthly download usage and logs it for a upto 12 months. I don't want any fancy graphics, somthing that looks like windows it perfectly fine. It has to be FREEWARE. I'm not using somthing for 30 days then it stop working, or somthing that does not have all the features and pester me to buy the full version. Also i'm not after somthing that downloads other software like weatherbug and all that crpa that I do not need. Surely there must be somthing out there... I use BM Extreme... http://www.lp23.com/bmextreme/ Tells me what's what, as it were, in a no-nonsense sort of way... There's a pay version as well, although I haven't found a need for anything more than the free one gives me. Martin D. Pay ADSL enthusiast... ^_- what happens if u shutdown ur pc? does it store the bandwidth and monitor it even if u switch off PC? if i have a network and use PC as gateway and only install monitor on pc it will monitor all internet traffic, including the usage coming from the other machine/notebooks on the network? |
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On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 19:30:20 +0000 (UTC), "Christo" chris@ no
spamming juststuff.co.uk mangled uncounted electrons thus: "Martin D. Pay" wrote in message .. . snip I use BM Extreme... http://www.lp23.com/bmextreme/ Tells me what's what, as it were, in a no-nonsense sort of way... There's a pay version as well, although I haven't found a need for anything more than the free one gives me. Martin D. Pay ADSL enthusiast... ^_- what happens if u shutdown ur pc? does it store the bandwidth and monitor it even if u switch off PC? if i have a network and use PC as gateway and only install monitor on pc it will monitor all internet traffic, including the usage coming from the other machine/notebooks on the network? Umm... No! If you shut down the PC upon which the app is installed, you will shut down the app as well. I've never encountered software that can monitor a router's WAN bandwidth usage from the router itself, independently of a PC... Martin D. Pay (Granted, I've never looked for such software... |
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Hi,
I'm the guy who created BMExtreme (for what it's worth) - thanks Martin for mentioning it Anyway, I just wanted to mention that with the either the home or professional version - with BMExtreme on separate computers it can add the bandwidth together and show how much each computer is using. An example screen shot of this can be seen here. Of note, separate licenses would be needed for each computer and the professional version can show the stats of each computer through the web as well. I do believe there is software out there that can get the info from the router itself but have no experience with them myself so I'm not exactly sure how well they work. Luigi |
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