On Saturday 17 Jul 2004 10:44 am, Margot wrote: > I'm considering upgrading to a broadband service sometime later in > the year. > > Many of the packages available seem to be limited by *size* - eg > Wanadoo has a package for 17.99 a month with a limit of 2GB per > month and a package of 15GB per month for 27.99.
Not all of them do. OTOH, the cheap ones probably do moreso. I strongly suggest you check out ADSLGuide: http://adslguide.org/ They have a very good ISP comparison feature. > Before deciding > which package to go for, I need to know how much I'm using now - and > then add a bit for safety! I don't really want to download or upload > much more than I do already, but I just want to do it faster! An always on, always fast connection has ways of subverting your intent :-) > > Presumably somewhere in Mandrake (10CE currently) there's some sort > of log which will tell me how much I upload/download daily, so I can > check it over the course of a couple of months. > What am I looking for, and where am I likely to find it? For a quick and dirty solution you could just use "ifconfig" (as root). Since I don't know how your network is built, I can't say if the stats it gives are the ones you want. You could check out ntop. That does what you want, and a hell of a lot more. You might find installing and using it a challenge; there's no RPM that I could find, the source is only available in CVS, there are several dependencies and no real tutorial. Having said that I had no real trouble getting it up and running. http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html -- Richard Urwin
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