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 > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com
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