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Firmware to measure bandwidth use

Split from this topic ---> »Any New Updates on Comcast Abuse Calls

Towards the tail end of this screencast(flash required), take a look at this person's bandwidth usage. He's downloading about 200 gig/month and uploading 130 gig/month. It shows his usage for the last 8 months in 2006 - pretty nice to get that type of bandwidth without the letters!

»www.polarcloud.com/v/scbwm.htm

In case your wondering, he makes third-party firmware for Linksys wrt54g routers. Since my internet usage was increasing without an accurate bandwidth log, I've loaded this firmware on my router.

Definitely feels alot better knowing what my usage is!

dadkins
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Hercules, CA

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Re: Any New Updates on Comcast Abuse Calls

He makes firmware, cool!

I use DU Meter to see what each machine uses.
NetMeter is a Free clone of DuMeter.

Rob
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Re: Firmware to measure bandwidth use

It would be nice if Comcast allowed us to view our monthly usage on their website.

jbob
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I think the consensus is that some of the ISPs do not wish to advertise a HARD bandwidth limit. I'm afraid if they set one it would be much lower than the assumed 500 to 600 GB monthly limit we see now. If they set a hard limit there'd be hard core people who use it all just to say they were using it.

IMHO I think the current policy is fine! However someday in the future I'd expect an increase due to equipment upgrades and increased network bandwidth usage overall.

Rob
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Rob

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said by jbob:

I think the consensus is that some of the ISPs do not wish to advertise a HARD bandwidth limit. I'm afraid if they set one it would be much lower than the assumed 500 to 600 GB monthly limit we see now. If they set a hard limit there'd be hard core people who use it all just to say they were using it.

IMHO I think the current policy is fine! However someday in the future I'd expect an increase due to equipment upgrades and increased network bandwidth usage overall.
I agree, but I wasn't asking for a hard bandwidth limit or a published one. Simply providing us with a tool on their website to monitor our bandwidth limit for our own personal interest. After all, since Comcast does have "invisible caps", then we know they are logging our bandwidth usage, why not just make that available to us?
juniorx
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St John'S, NL

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said by Rob:

said by jbob:

I think the consensus is that some of the ISPs do not wish to advertise a HARD bandwidth limit. I'm afraid if they set one it would be much lower than the assumed 500 to 600 GB monthly limit we see now. If they set a hard limit there'd be hard core people who use it all just to say they were using it.

IMHO I think the current policy is fine! However someday in the future I'd expect an increase due to equipment upgrades and increased network bandwidth usage overall.
I agree, but I wasn't asking for a hard bandwidth limit or a published one. Simply providing us with a tool on their website to monitor our bandwidth limit for our own personal interest. After all, since Comcast does have "invisible caps", then we know they are logging our bandwidth usage, why not just make that available to us?
Rogers HSI in Canada has this. With us, we're limited to 60gigs a month so the tool is very useful. Even with such a low bandswidth cap, I rarely go over the limit. Those who get letters/phone calls from abuse must be hardcore downloaders and im sure their downloading all "legal" stuff

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We seem to have finished discussing the actual subject of this topic, so let's call this one done before it becomes yet another argument about bandwidth use.

We already did that.

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