[mythtv-users] OT: Track Total Downloads for Bandwidth Limit

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Wed Aug 6 20:13:22 UTC 2008


On Aug 6, 2008, at 1:00 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:

> My house is halfway between 2 local switches and I get only 288 kbps  
> up
> or down with DSL.
>
> I'm wondering about getting Rogers "Portable Internet Basic" which  
> would
> be twice as fast at the same price. However that package has a Monthly
> Bandwidth Activity Limit of 10GB.
>
> Can anyone suggest a program which will allow me to track and total my
> downloads (including daily SchedulesDirect mythfilldatabase). There  
> must
> be some sort of program, and I may end up with a bruise on my forehead
> when someone points out the obvious to me, but at the moment, I'm  
> stumped.

Proxy through Squid (http://www.squid-cache.org) Then you can grep  
your logs and total your bandwidth. There might even be a free  
reporting tool that does that. (My old company made an expensive web/ 
ftp/streaming server/proxy log reporting tool so I never looked at  
what info the free ones could give - I just always use that.)



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