Monitoring DL UL Consumption

[Ty909]

Road Runner have introduced a new DL/UL consumption policy for my area. Any one who goes over a upload/download of 15GB/month will be charged $15 per 5 gigabytes. This does sucks for what is paid for this service. RR do not offer any service to allow you to monitor this so they proberly will try to catch you off guard so they can charge you a fortune for your mishap.

Does any one know of any software that can monitor and keep a log of upload and download consumption??????

XP allows you to do this via tak manager ->networking, but its extremely basic and clears itself when you close task manager.

I have been averaging 35 GB/month according to them (LIARS) so this is why I am concerned.

Thanks....

[Ya_know]

35 gig a month! Man that's a lot of porn!

I don't have any suggestion on a monitor, but I would certainly be as upset as you are if they told me they wanted to charge for the consumption, especially if it was an error somewhere in their reporting. If they don't offer a tool for you to be able to monitor this on your end, (similar to an electricity or water meter, or even a phone record of calls) then I think they are treading on a legal loophole, or they are in the wrong. I would pursue that angle and see what you can uncover...perhaps your state better business burrow for starters...

[Ty909]

Dude, NO PORN!!!!!

movies, MP3s, ISO's, ect.........

Well, RR are now offering RR Xtreme priced at $99/month which raises the dl/ul limit to 40GB/month, with 3mbits dowstream and 512 up..but who and why the hell would want to pay 99 a month?? RR still is better performance and a deal than dsl.

The government let go control Broadband pricing last year. ever since marketing departments have been thinking of ways to suck the blood dry from its customers. If you look at this situation im in..Time warner cable are luring me into upgrading from standard RR to RR Xtreme a $55 diference (Great marketing schemes I have to say). But I am not going to fall for it.

C$o$r$p$o$r$a$t$e companies, dont you just love em.

[NooNoo]

You could always try downloading non-copyright stuff

[craigmodius]

And while you're downloading all that non-copyrighted porn you should be able to use NetStat Live from www.analogx.com to keep a running total of your DLs and ULs.

Don't even get me started on how 'bait and switch' the situation you find youself in is, from a company that shows commercials of people downloading songs (from RRs site of course ) and talks about how great and easy it is. Yeah, just don't actually use our service for anything more than casual web surfing or we'll fine you. Hypocrites

edit: as with many, if not all of the fine analogx programs it's free and it kicks ***

[Rellik]

Originally posted by Ty909
movies, MP3s, ISO's, ect.........

I dunno, ISOs and Movies really do suck bandwidth. a full ISO will average ~700MB; after a while those quickly add up in the GB range. Especially if tou are using P2P apps.

Oh, and unless you are downloading the latest Linux distro, and legit internet movies, you are treading dangerously into a spankin' flamewar in this thread, and it will be closed.

[Packrat]

DUMETER is what I use.

http://www.dumeter.com/

Glad I don't have a cap, I am just wondering when they will eventually do that.

[Ty909]

Thanks...works great...now I can watch my back.

And for the record..everything I DL is legal. Though I feel like I need to raise hell for Time Warners marketing scams.....DOWN TO CITY HALL!!!!!!!!!!AAARRRRGGHHH

[gerf]

Earthlink should be available if RR is. Here at least, RR is 45 a month for 3 months on a special, and 50 after that. Earthlink is 30 a month for 6 months, and 40 after that. Also, RR does the same download limit here too. Earthlink is unlimited. And, the same tech person for Time Warner did the transaction for me.

so, check out Earthlink cable

[Radical Dreamer]

A little off topic, but transfer caps are BS, I would go back to dialup before i would let the BB companies govern how much i download, i shouldnt have to be bothered with watching how much BW is use just because some moron college student is using 150GB/day

[Mkapos]

OK, does anyone have any ideas how to find out how much traffic goes through a router? I have about 7-8 systems behind a linksys router and I'd like to know how much all the machines are transfering in total?

[gerf]

Originally posted by Radical Dreamer
A little off topic, but transfer caps are BS, I would go back to dialup before i would let the BB companies govern how much i download, i shouldnt have to be bothered with watching how much BW is use just because some moron college student is using 150GB/day

i'm that college moron... and when you're used to getting faster speeds, it becomes almost habit to do large file transfers. oh well, it's only for teh summer, when bandwidth goes down overall anyway (since people do more outdoors stuff).

[Radical Dreamer]

Sorry to say, but there just arent enough legal files out there to consume over a gig a day, hell I even download linux iso's and watch Apple movie trailers and listen to net radio and I dont use that much.

[Carpel]

I've been using DU-Meter since it came out. I like having the semi-transparent graph down in the corner showing me any traffic at all times.

I have OptOnline, and although they havent started billing for extra bandwidth, they have capped outbound speed to around 16k on anyone that uses high volumes of it.

(Like me)

CarpelDMK

[fst1006]

Originally posted by Packrat
DUMETER is what I use.

http://www.dumeter.com/

Glad I don't have a cap, I am just wondering when they will eventually do that.

That program is awsome.