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Re: Rogers Overages will be Chargeable as of Jan. 1st 2008 said by sbrook:they still haven't got the usage meter working properly. meaning that if they Charge for going over you can take them to court because the usage meter is not 100% working.
so you and rogers dont know the real usage unless you run a Usage Program on your computer(s).
and users can use the BBR website as evidence to it not working 100% |
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 sbrookPremium,Mod
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Ottawa
kudos:4 | even running a usage program on your compy doesn't help if you have a network. |
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| said by sbrook:even running a usage program on your compy doesn't help if you have a network. I think the Linksys WRT54G with Tomato firmware can show the amount of bandwidth used as it has a Bandwidth monitor right in the router. Support some of the Buffalo routers too. |
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sbrookPremium,Mod
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Ottawa
kudos:4 | if it can segregate wan traffic from lan traffic, yes. |
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| said by sbrook:if it can segregate wan traffic from lan traffic, yes. Yes, it can. The Bandwidth History log (daily, weekly or monthly with user selectable start of monthly cycle date) is for WAN port bandwidth only. LAN traffic log is only kept for the last 24 hours.
Actually, the excellent bandwidth monitor is the main reason I chose Tomato firmware over others. |
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1 edit | said by kalak :said by sbrook:if it can segregate wan traffic from lan traffic, yes. Yes, it can. The Bandwidth History log (daily, weekly or monthly with user selectable start of monthly cycle date) is for WAN port bandwidth only. LAN traffic log is only kept for the last 24 hours. Actually, the excellent bandwidth monitor is the main reason I chose Tomato firmware over others. To just get the WAN bandwidth monitoring would I just exclude br0, and eth1? That would just leave vlan1. Correct? |
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Yes, I use Tomato as well to track my bandwidth. But I do notice some differences in tracking from Tomato compared to Rogers, mainly due to upload portion. For example, Tomato would report 0.5GB while Rogers would only report 0.3GB. And over the course of the month, the Tomato bandwidth would over-estimate my bandwidth usage compared to Roger's Bandwidth tracker. But it's still a good indicator when Roger's bandwidth tracker screws up.
I think the difference in reporting from Tomato and Rogers has to do with the network. For example, Tomato tracks everything that is leaving your IP including connections within Rogers' network. While I think Rogers' bandwidth tracker only track what leaves their network. What do you guys think? |
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sbrookPremium,Mod
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Ottawa
kudos:4 | Nope. Rogers tracks everything through your modem. They *may* be subtracting an allowance for things you can't help. |
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| said by sbrook:Nope. Rogers tracks everything through your modem. They *may* be subtracting an allowance for things you can't help. Yes they do substract an allowance for internal traffic...That they have no choice about..... Usually things like ARP packets and any number of other bits and bytes that could possibly get added into your monthly total.... All providers do this as standard practice....If they didn't you could easily loose 20 GIGs or more a month of your cap depending on the type of network......
And as a quick side note Cellular providers to them same thing with certain types of traffic with PDA and non PDA based devices.....(and yes rogers is included in that)
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