Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom

2021-05-13 Thread Dick Steffens
On 5/13/21 1:32 PM, Russell Senior wrote: In the context of paying for bandwidth during a Zoom call, unless you have a way of turning off those other uses, you are going to end up shuttling those bytes over your data plan and needing to pay for them anyway, so it seems to me worth counting

Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom

2021-05-13 Thread Dick Steffens
On 5/13/21 12:23 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: I know that Russell is aware of this, but it's worth noting that aggregate numbers won't necessarily be limited to your Zoom session. Your package manager may be configured to look for updates every once in a while; a cron job may kick off a network

Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom

2021-05-13 Thread Dick Steffens
On 5/13/21 11:44 AM, Russell Senior wrote: You do want to be looking at the whole picture though, not just firefox. Those numbers are way too low to be your online meeting. You might want to track total in/out bytes of the interface. Before and after your meeting run ifconfig -a. For each

Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom

2021-05-13 Thread Russell Senior
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 12:23 PM Paul Heinlein wrote: > > On Thu, 13 May 2021, Russell Senior wrote: > > > You do want to be looking at the whole picture though, not just > > firefox. Those numbers are way too low to be your online meeting. > > > > You might want to track total in/out bytes of

Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom

2021-05-13 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 13 May 2021, Russell Senior wrote: You do want to be looking at the whole picture though, not just firefox. Those numbers are way too low to be your online meeting. You might want to track total in/out bytes of the interface. Before and after your meeting run ifconfig -a. For each

Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom

2021-05-13 Thread Russell Senior
You do want to be looking at the whole picture though, not just firefox. Those numbers are way too low to be your online meeting. You might want to track total in/out bytes of the interface. Before and after your meeting run ifconfig -a. For each interface, you should see a line like:

Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom

2021-05-13 Thread Dick Steffens
On 5/12/21 10:58 PM, TomasK wrote: Or you could just read the in/out 75MB/53.6MB numbers I put in brackets for you, double check the columns and call it a day. In the light of "another day" this makes sense. Thanks. -- Regards, Dick Steffens