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Bandwidth usage

[b] My internet has improved the last few weeks, but on the downside my bandwidth is definitely disappearing much faster then before. I used one token this year until this past two weeks, when I've used two. 5 MB disappeared today while doing emails and surfing - in about an hour. Nothing heavy - no videos.

I've noticed this too. It's starting to become annoying.

Wyngs,
The thing is 5 MB is such a small amount.
Yesterday I fired up a WinXP machine, it downloaded a small out of sync windows update. there also was an adobe air update.
All in rather small but much depends a individual settings.

Are you still on a HN9000 ?
What are you using for a desktop usage meter ?
if on a 9000 I highly recommend hnFAP alert written by our own dbirman (Don Bradner)

»www.datastormusers.com/hnFAPAlert.cfm

It is a small amount, but my usage habits haven't changed. Used my 3rd token of the month yesterday.

I just use this. I bring it into my HOME page via iFRAME so I'm looking at it often....

http://www.systemcontrolcenter.com/stlui/user/allowance_request.html

I have noticed that I am getting my "up to" speed of 10 Mbps more often than I used to. The host average on testmy.net for HughesNet has also increased from 6 Mbps to 10 Mbps. I haven't noticed anything unusual with the usage meters however. I assume that you've seen JacksonTech's post about "phantom traffic" from Bittorent? But that was a lot more than 5 MB.

(Odd: when I started this post, I downloaded 12 MB on testmy.net and testmy.net reported a download speed on 10.1 Mbps with a maximum speed of 17.74 Mbps. I just ran the test again and I got an average speed of 0.587 Mbps with a maximum speed of 1.32 Mbps.)

Wyngs, can you veryify that you are on a Non Gen4 ?
If so, do download dbirdman,s meter
Runs in the systray, shows remaining allowance in MBs at a glance, you con watch 3-4 Mb fall off.
Takes no resources and has an alarm.
Best of all, it was written by one of US, and its free

I'm on the 9000, but I'm also happy without installing another bandwidth meter (grin)