Okay, so our household switched internet providers recently, and when my dad got the bill it said we exceeded our maximum bandwidth of 25 GB a month by around 100 GBs, which is needless to say- ridiculous.
He doesn't know what's sucking up that much data, and I just want to find out how much my own computer uses, so that I can show it to him and eliminate myself as a possible contender.
TL;DR: Is there and if so, what is the best program (preferably freeware) that can monitor the bandwidth usage of my computer?
Yep, that wasn't what I asked for.
I asked for people's opinions on which is the best one. Because googleing something does not [i]always[/i] sort your results from best to worst.
Do you have a router? Your best bet is to use that to monitor bandwidth. (If it doesn't support it natively there is probably custom firmware that does)
Why you ask? Because a router will monitor everything on the network while software will just monitor the PC it is installed on.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;21378372]Do you have a router? Your best bet is to use that to monitor bandwidth. (If it doesn't support it natively there is probably custom firmware that does)
Why you ask? Because a router will monitor everything on the network while software will just monitor the PC it is installed on.[/QUOTE]
Still not what he wanted though. He wants to prove to his dad that he's not downloading 100 gb/month
Don't ISPs usually have a bandwidth monitor on their website?
[url]http://www.thinkbroadband.com/tbbmeter.html[/url]
Have fun
[url]http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/[/url]
also allows for multiple computers to talk to each other so people can see whos downloading everything and you can set a monthly quota on downloads
If you are prepared to pay, go for [URL="http://www.netlimiter.com/"]NetLimiter[/URL].
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