[HLUG] bandwidth logging

[Steve Bushell]

Hi Andreas,

Certainly the router rate Andreas! ADSL+ theoretical max is 8Mbps down, sorry! I'm on 1Gbps internal connections here, but that won't do a THING to my internet rate (save for a tiny bit of latency improvement.

 Yes, you may be using more than you were, but my point is simply that 10Gbytes a month isn't much I'm afraid, not at all!  Heck, in terms of a bit of Iplayer, and a few updates etc, and downloads it's zippo, I use a gig a month over the airwaves on my Iphone, emails, bit of iplayer, updates, web browsing etc  I'm sorry, but the 2010 network connected real world is up to figures like that nowadays (why else do the isp's feel it necessary to limit outrageous users like me if we weren't ... urm....... 'USING' it?

Your router should show internet usage, and your isp should be able to let you monitor it too (if they're any good... oh, BT... Hmmm, I see your point)....

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Andreas T. Ege
Sent: 12 October 2010 22:32
To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
Subject: Re: [HLUG] bandwidth logging

Hello,

> So that pretty much scotches the megabit connection rates you're
> quoting.  I do accept that it is possible with great care to get up
well, the mbit connection rates I quote are just what Wicd connection info (and before that knetworkmanager) gives me as speed. If, like now, it quotes 54 Mb/s, I sometimes wonder if that's the rate to the router.
;-) Then again, why should that fluctuate so extreme?

> interest, my son who is on the normal domestic tariff frequently pays
> the normal £15 + another £60 odd for 'excess usage' charges because he
> uses IPlayer a lot.
>
My point is less the high usage as such. What worries me is that the data transfer seems close to doubled in some months since we moved to what we had before, though I wouldn't be aware of any change of usage.

And actual connection speeds definetely vary, sometimes even normal webpages take like forever, and I can just skip Iplayer/ get_iplayer (get_iplayer between 11 and 200 kbps), other times get_iplayer downloads with speeds around 700-900 kbps. Sure, part of it prob is serverside, but it was never that extreme in Kington.


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