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

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Aug 6 20:16:31 UTC 2008


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.

I believe that Roger's basic service has only 64k upstream speed, pretty
limited. The speeds quoted for downstream are "up to", and subject to
major slowdowns during peak usage periods.

I've also read of folks complaining that rain and other bad weather can
cause slowdowns or actual outages.  Personally I would refuse to
purchase any service with a bandwidth cap, mainly to discourage that
sort of anti-social behavior.

As long as you are aware of the limitations, and are OK with that, go
for it.

As for keeping track of usage, ifconfig will tell you the total packets
through an interface.

beww


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