[HLUG] bandwidth logging

[Colin Gittings]

Hi Andreas,

I'm with BT and suffer large fluctuations in speed (only between .25 & 3
Mb/s but I live in a more remote area) but I haven't had any letters for
high consumption ever.

I'm afraid I have no experience of tracking and logging my internet
usage.

Best of luck,

Colin


On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 21:00 +0100, Andreas T. Ege wrote:
> 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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