On 7 December 2010 08:48, Gordon Burgess-Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/12/2010 08:15, James Page wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 21:49 +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote: > >> The situation my dad ended up with is to rely on BT's warning email at > >> 80% of usage, and bear the cap in mind during the month. > > If you have an online account with BT they now have a Broadband usage > > monitor - I think its updated daily. You can find it in the Broadband > > section of the online servicing website. > > > Yes they do. I'm using a meter on my Windows machine in order to monitor > what sort of activity uses the most bandwidth and wanted to compare > usage on my Linux machine. ( you'd be amazed at how much bandwidth is > used by online forums for example...) > > I use vnstat http://humdi.net/vnstat/ which is a simple command line network stats. there are also some graphical frontends too http://sourceforge.net/projects/vnstatsvg/ http://www.sqweek.com/sqweek/index.php?p=1 hope this helps azmodie
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