[plug] broadband monitoring?

[Ben Woods]

I find netspeed to be very good for this scenario.

It's a gnome applet that shows you both the up and down network speeds:
http://www.wh-hms.uni-ulm.de/~mfcn/netspeed/

Ubuntu:
apt-get install netspeed

Cheers,
Ben

On 6/24/07, Rob Dunne <rob.dunne at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi List,
>
> I want to monitor my broadband connection.
>
> I am with iiNet and they have a separate off-peak quota. The off-peak
> time is from 2:00am to 12:00 noon. According to the iiNet site I
> downloaded 470 MB during this period today.
>
> While the computer was on during this time, I only checked the weather
>    and perhaps read a couple of items at the Sydney Morning Herald
> (smh.com.au). 470 MB seems an awful lot!
>
>
> ethereal collects too much information for this. Is there something else
> I can leave running the will tell me what the cumulative traffic is? Is
> there perhaps a log file I can turn on?
>
>
> Bye
> Rob
>
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From: Benjamin Woods
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