[HLUG] bandwidth logging

[Andreas T. Ege]

Hi there,

since I moved to Shobdon I apparently have a problem with the amount of 
data going over my broadband connection. I'm with BT, 10GB included per 
month. Besides the connection speed is fluctuating quite strong betwenn 
1 and 9 Mbit/sec, up to 48 at times, I had one mail from BT claiming I'd 
used 9 Gig, last month they say it was 18 Gig, and for October up to now 7.
When I was still in Kington I never got mails like that, and I 
definetely never went over the 10 Gig. The set up then was virtually the 
same as now:
a desktop with first Gentoo, then (and now) Kubuntu mainly, rarely Win 
2000 at first, then Win 7;
a laptop with Win 7 (only used one or two months in Kington, though, 
before that laptop with Win XP);
and an Iphone.
Connection speed in Kington was much higher, close to 58Mbit/sec most of 
the time, and usage of the computers hasn't changed.
On the usage side the only suspicions are a) Win7 updates, and b) using 
get_iplayer to download films/ radio programs from BBC. The problem I 
got with downloading BBC stuff is, that now I very often need 3 or 4 
tries till somethings downloaded completely, though get_iplayer claims 
to have downloaded everything, but the actual file size is variably 
(between like 5% to 95% of supposed file size) smaller then it should 
be. It worked fairly well for a few weeks in between, but got worse again.

I've just installed bandwidthd as a monitor/ logger under kubuntu 
(there's a win version as well, which will go on the laptop tomorrow, 
probably). The probs I got with bandwidthd are, it's starting before 
wlan0 comes up, and then apparently stops, and it seems to delete it's 
old logs, so I don't get a proper weekly/ monthly overview.

What I mainly don't understand is, that with broadband speeds of more 
then 10times of what I got now, I didn't manage to get more 10Gig data 
transfer in Kington, how do I manage with basically now different 
computer/ internet usage do up to twice the data transfer?

So, to my questions:
a) has anybody made similar experiences with BT (or any other provider, 
for that matter)?
b) how do I get bandwidthd to start after the network interface (wlan0)?
c) how do I tell bandwidthd to keep its protocols at shutdown/ restart?

I just see, that over like the last 15min I got TCP traffic of 9.7M. How 
do I figure out where that's coming from?--
Andreas Ege

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