Bandwidth usage tool [Archive]

mikeybrass

22-01-2006, 23:57

Hi, does anyone know whether NTL provide a statistic tool measuring your total bandwidth usage on their network for the month:confused:

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Apologies for mis-spelling bandwidth in the thread title.

Halcyon

22-01-2006, 23:59

I use Netmeter.
It will monitor both upload and downloads and you can set it to alert you if you go over a set amount.
It is free and you can get it from http://readerror.gmxhome.de (http://%5BURL=%22http://readerror.gmxhome.de/%22)

(http://readerror.gmxhome.de/)

danielf

23-01-2006, 00:07

These bandwidth monitors work fine, but there's a problem when you run a home network, as the traffic within the network will be counted towards the internet traffic. The reported traffic will/may overestimate internet traffic when you're on a home network.

Toto

23-01-2006, 00:08

Hi, does anyone know whether NTL provide a statistic tool measuring your total bandwidth usage on their network for the month:confused:

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Apologies for mis-spelling bandwidth in the thread title.

They may well do in the near future. Especially if they intend to deal with bandwidth abuse.

patrickp

23-01-2006, 00:09

Hi, does anyone know whether NTL provide a statistic tool measuring your total bandwidth usage on their network for the month:confused:

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Apologies for mis-spelling bandwidth in the thread title.

No, they don't, Mikey. There's been some controversy over whether they should.

mikeybrass

23-01-2006, 00:12

No, they don't, Mikey. There's been some controversy over whether they should.

I think that they should. I searched the ntlworld website but frankly it is such a crapy site that I was wondering if I had somehow missed a link.

Thanks:-)

PS: to earlier posters, I'm not interested in running a meter on my computer as there are two computers on a peer-to-peer home network here.

BarFly

23-01-2006, 14:09

itl be here sooner rather than later...

testing has started i believe....

http://www.ntlworld.com/helpsupport/myaccount/myusage/

gripper103

23-01-2006, 17:32

I use Netmeter.
It will monitor both upload and downloads and you can set it to alert you if you go over a set amount.
It is free and you can get it from http://readerror.gmxhome.de (http://%5BURL=%22http://readerror.gmxhome.de/%22)

(http://readerror.gmxhome.de/)

I also use this and can highly recommend it,it not only can be set to warn you about your cap limit,but gives you a daily,weekly,monthly report and a projection of how much you are likely to use in a month.
As has been mentioned before the best bit is it's Freeware:)