I find netspeed to be very good for this scenario.<br><br>It's a gnome applet that shows you both the up and down network speeds:<br><a href="http://www.wh-hms.uni-ulm.de/~mfcn/netspeed/">http://www.wh-hms.uni-ulm.de/~mfcn/netspeed/
</a><br><br>Ubuntu:<br>apt-get install netspeed<br><br>Cheers,<br>Ben<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rob Dunne</b> <<a href="mailto:rob.dunne@gmail.com">rob.dunne@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi List,<br><br>I want to monitor my broadband connection.<br><br>I am with iiNet and they have a separate off-peak quota. The off-peak
<br>time is from 2:00am to 12:00 noon. According to the iiNet site I<br>downloaded 470 MB during this period today.<br><br>While the computer was on during this time, I only checked the weather<br> and perhaps read a couple of items at the Sydney Morning Herald
<br>(<a href="http://smh.com.au">smh.com.au</a>). 470 MB seems an awful lot!<br><br><br>ethereal collects too much information for this. Is there something else<br>I can leave running the will tell me what the cumulative traffic is? Is
<br>there perhaps a log file I can turn on?<br><br><br>Bye<br>Rob<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>PLUG discussion list: <a href="mailto:plug@plug.org.au">plug@plug.org.au</a><br><a href="http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug">
http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug</a><br>Committee e-mail: <a href="mailto:committee@plug.linux.org.au">committee@plug.linux.org.au</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>From: Benjamin Woods<br>
<a href="mailto:woodsb02@gmail.com">woodsb02@gmail.com</a><br>Registered Linux User #372573<br>Registered Ubuntu User #6395