Who Confirms The Accuracy Of ISP Usage Meters? → meter in my machine

I've been using BWMeter for several months, just so I can see what my internet usage is. If AT&T starts metering, I'll have another piece of software looking at my DSL line besides AT&T.

Thanks for making me (and others aware of BWMeter. Looks great, but it's also $30.

I've been using Networx (»download.cnet.com/NetWor ··· 904.html) for about 6 months now (somone else on DSLR recommended (in the comments like this) once). I'm VERY happy with it. Just like with BWMeter, you can network other computers to get a better sense on your total network usage. BW Meter looks like it may be a bit more advanced, but for the price difference, I think many would be happy with Networx. If you are, you might consider throwing them a small bone, like we should for all great "free" software we use a lot to help support it.

Ideally, it is best to have this functionality on your router, but that's not always practical or convenient or cost effective. So this method is a second best way to get a read on your bandwidth usage. Of course, with all the individual non-pc devices being added to networks these days, this second pc by pc method will only give you a general read, but most non-pc devices also don't consume much bandwidth, so in most cases, this will be good enough.

This may work for a modem with 1 PC.

If you have more then one PC in the house, and those PC's also communicate with each other (think shared printing, files etc) BWmeter pretty much becomes useless.

Actually, BWMeter works very well with multiple machines on a router with a single modem. I'm using it with an Ethernet connected machine and a WiFi laptop. I've set it up so that it separates the traffic by "LAN" and "Internet".

i use dd-wrt on my router. has a pretty day by day graph and running total for each month. i'd love for AT&T to say I used more than what my router says.