MenuMeters is very good about clearly telling you exactly who is hogging 
bandwidth when it is being hogged, but it doesn't keep a history.

> On Oct 31, 2019, at 3:45 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Oct 31, 2019, at 14:42, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> About all you can do is turn off automatic updating, cloud backups, dropbox, 
>> and any other bandwidth hog you can think of.
> 
> Hard to tell. I'm checking Activity Monitor, the "Network" tab, and the "Sent 
> bytes" column does not give any time range.
> 
> Also, mDNSResponder is apparently the biggest packet sender, just above Mail, 
> but for some reason App Store is not there, etc.
> 
>> I can't even imagine how one would write an app that does what you want to 
>> do.
> 
> I was thinking some sort of packet sniffing mixed with some sort of "parental 
> control" or whatnot. But I really have no idea either.
> 
> Jean-Christophe
> 
>> I sympathize with your plight. I spent all of September and some of October 
>> on the road in an RV. Since campgrounds typically have suck or broken wifi, 
>> if they have it at all, I did a lot of tethering. For the first time ever, I 
>> ran into an unexpected limit on my "unlimited" plan (turns out they 
>> explicitly limit tethering only), and they offered no way for me to buy 
>> extra gigs to last out the month. The solution finally struck me: tether to 
>> my wife's phone, because the plan limit was per phone, not per account.
>> 
>>> On Oct 30, 2019, at 10:30 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm looking for an app that limits communication on the Mac side when I'm 
>>> tethering with my phone.
>>> 
>>> Or at least that lets me control which app goes through.
>>> 
>>> I just got a phone (almost 10 years without) and got a really bad surprise 
>>> yesterday when I realized that the App Store did all the updating in the 
>>> background. In 2 days, 4gb of stuff...
>>> 
>>> Any suggestion ?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jean-Christophe Helary
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>> http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune
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