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mindjuicer

02-05-2009 16:19

STM warning application?

2 questions:

1. How long has this %^&Â£$ (insert appropriate derogatory swear word) being going on?

2. Has anyone found an application that will work under XP and warn you when you've used 50% or 80% of your allotted downstream/upstream total between specified times?
All I can find are links to local council sites...

Thanks.

BenMcr

02-05-2009 16:20

Re: STM warning application?

1) Since May 2007

esdxc37

02-05-2009 16:51

Re: STM warning application?

Quote:

Originally Posted by mindjuicer (Post 34787204)

2 questions:

2. Has anyone found an application that will work under XP and warn you when you've used 50% or 80% of your allotted downstream/upstream total between specified times?
All I can find are links to local council sites...

Thanks.

http://www.dumeter.com/
http://www.bwmonitor.com/

I use the 1st one. does not warn you when you are approaching any limit but does give you your total doen/upload.

broadbandking

02-05-2009 17:03

Re: STM warning application?

Theres is a option on one that would alarm you when you have used a certain amount

Peter_

02-05-2009 18:29

Re: STM warning application?

Quote:

Originally Posted by broadbandking (Post 34787223)

Theres is a option on one that would alarm you when you have used a certain amount

You do not want to alarm people you want to quietly let them know in a upbeat friendly manner while discussing the weather.[img]Download Failed (1)[/img]

broadbandking

02-05-2009 19:30

Re: STM warning application?

Call - the weather is lovely outside o yeah you have been STM'd sorry so what you got planned for the weekend

Turkey Machine

02-05-2009 19:37

Re: STM warning application?

Quote:

Originally Posted by esdxc37 (Post 34787215)

http://www.dumeter.com/
http://www.bwmonitor.com/

I use the 1st one. does not warn you when you are approaching any limit but does give you your total doen/upload.

Both of those are *30 day trial* programs, as is NetMeter.

browney

02-05-2009 20:53

Re: STM warning application?

I am amazed by some people. How can you not know about STM?

Peter_

02-05-2009 20:55

Re: STM warning application?

Quote:

Originally Posted by browney (Post 34787322)

I am amazed by some people. How can you not know about STM?

The majority of customers will be totally unaware of STM as they just browse or use sites like MSN or Facebook.

frogstamper

02-05-2009 22:31

Re: STM warning application?

I use this one from think broadband, it gives you all the info like hourly, daily, weekly and monthly totals, and best of all its free.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/tbbmeter.html

mindjuicer

03-05-2009 20:56

Re: STM warning application?

Thanks for all the replies

TBBmeter does exactly what I want and even has VM STM parameters already as an option. But it doesn't tell you how to set those options, is non-intuitive, has no help file and the forum is a mess.

I'm having the exact same problem as this guy and have managed to get only the evening alarm working through near-random clicking.

As far as not recognising STM, it's far from obvious why something is going at ~50kps. It could be either the remote computer or network traffic and it never bothered me enough to complain about it.

Joxer

03-05-2009 23:36

Re: STM warning application?

I had thought about writing a shell script to do something similar, for me this would involve 3 steps:

1. learn to write shell scripts.
2. Write script.
3. Enjoy!

Still stuck on step 1.

Anyway the basic job is fairly simple, some pseudo code.

Code:

Run at 4 pm (for evening stm)

10 start_total_data = snmpget -v 2c -c public 192.168.100.1 IF-MIB::ifOutOctets.1

20 Wait a bit

25 if time> 9pm then stop

30 Data_Since_STM_Start =(snmpget -v 2c -c public 192.168.100.1 IF-MIB::ifInOctets.1) - start_total_data

40 if Data_Since_STM_Start>(some amount dependant on package and when you want warned) then Do_something_to_alert_user else goto 20

Unless of course SNMP is disabled on you modem, though you could run it on your router if it supports it.

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