[QUOTE=Trumple;28710536]Do you guys get charged when you go over your download limit?
I went over by 30GB and they charged us £12[/QUOTE]
My ISP is so slow the only cap is a physical one. My theoretical maximum (downstream) limit is 438GB/month, and that's if I'm maxing my connection 24/7 for a month.
[editline]20th March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=nikomo;28716871]Why are you guys even monitoring bandwidth usage?
I can understand if your modem or router does it automatically, but other than that..[/QUOTE]
Router does it automatically.
I go about 700mb a day normally, sometimes as low as 400mb.
BT
[img]http://i52.tinypic.com/357mtc5.png[/img]
If I recall correctly I did download Supreme Commander 2 yesterday. According to BT the limit for a month is 100GB.
[QUOTE=nikomo;28716871]Why are you guys even monitoring bandwidth usage?
I can understand if your modem or router does it automatically, but other than that..[/QUOTE]
My router does it automatically. That's the only reason I know or care.
[QUOTE=nikomo;28716871]Why are you guys even monitoring bandwidth usage?
I can understand if your modem or router does it automatically, but other than that..[/QUOTE]
Most people aren't, they ARE grabbing the information from their router. A lot of people here seem to be running Tomato on their routers, which does a very good job of bandwidth tracking.
a helluva lot
I'm generally torrenting near constantly, and since my max speed is around 2.5MBps the bandwidth I eat through can sometimes be insane. Put it this way, if I was on a shitty but equally mobile contract and there wasn't a law to dictate how much I could be charged I'd be spending more money than I could ever pay back in my whole life every single day.
How can I find out? Heck, I barely even know what bandwith is.
[QUOTE=benjgvps;28718219]Most people aren't, they ARE grabbing the information from their router. A lot of people here seem to be running Tomato on their routers, which does a very good job of bandwidth tracking.[/QUOTE]
I just had a look at Tomato.
I have a WRT54GL coming in tomorrow. Or, well, technically due to the time, today.
Damn, now I have to decide between Tomato, OpenWRT and DD-WRT.
I've never watched my daily bandwidth, but our ISP keeps track of monthly usage of course. My parents use roughly 4/250 gigs a month, and then I come home and it usually shoots up to anywhere between 40-100 :biggrin:
I'm still using the stock firmware on my WRT350N. Are there any real benefits to switching over to a different firmware?
[QUOTE=Odellus;28719354]I'm still using the stock firmware on my WRT350N. Are there any real benefits to switching over to a different firmware?[/QUOTE]
Stability, better interface and monitoring features and you can usually crank up the output power.
On my computer, by myself, I've averaged 100 GB a day. Combine the 75 I'm riding at now with my bedside computer, Xbox, PS3, iPhone, two other iPhones in the family, and two other computers that my family use. I'm scared to find out.
[QUOTE=nikomo;28719250]I just had a look at Tomato.
I have a WRT54GL coming in tomorrow. Or, well, technically due to the time, today.
Damn, now I have to decide between Tomato, OpenWRT and DD-WRT.[/QUOTE]
I just realized that the router I have sitting in the corner is a WRT54G, completely unused.
Time to get rid of this shitty WNR834B I'm using and switch over to that! :buddy:
I'm taking a networking class, I'm thinking of buying a WRT* router and screwing around with it to learn and then swapping it into our network. Would it be worth it? And if it is, what's the cheapest I could find?
Around 300MB download and 30MB upload if I'm not downloading anything.
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;28719519]I'm taking a networking class, I'm thinking of buying a WRT* router and screwing around with it to learn and then swapping it into our network. Would it be worth it? And if it is, what's the cheapest I could find?[/QUOTE]
Rosewill RNX-GX4. You can find it for about $30 and it has the exact same specs as a WRT54GL with a slightly faster processor. It's fully compatible with DD-WRT and Tomato.
What he said.
I only got a WRT54GL because that was easy to find and it was like 59€.
Edit:
I've got BitMeter OS running right now because of this thread.
The clock's 5:50 and I'm coming up on 5GB soon.
[QUOTE=nikomo;28719250]I just had a look at Tomato.
I have a WRT54GL coming in tomorrow. Or, well, technically due to the time, today.
Damn, now I have to decide between Tomato, OpenWRT and DD-WRT.[/QUOTE]
I'd go with DD-WRT nowadays, I put Tomato on mine in the first place because DD-WRT had issues with my specific router model at the time.
DD-WRT handles many simultaneous connections better.
About 1gb a day. If it ever spikes it's just because I downloaded a game or something.
[QUOTE=nikomo;28719250]I just had a look at Tomato.
I have a WRT54GL coming in tomorrow. Or, well, technically due to the time, today.
Damn, now I have to decide between Tomato, OpenWRT and DD-WRT.[/QUOTE]
I was always a DD-WRT guy then I tried Tomato and it was really nice and simple but still just as powerful.
[editline]21st March 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Zeke129;28722405]I'd go with DD-WRT nowadays, I put Tomato on mine in the first place because DD-WRT had issues with my specific router model at the time.
DD-WRT handles many simultaneous connections better.[/QUOTE]
I don't know, it probably is router dependant. I'd say tomato for most average users, I personally just use a PC as a DHCP host and a switch, with a wireless router set up as a access point, have never had a network problem since. I don't get why more people don't just do this.
I never come close to my cap of 250Gb. I even have Netflix and love Instant movies.
[img]http://localhostr.com/files/3KTkswY/capture.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Shadaez;28724214]I don't know, it probably is router dependant[/QUOTE]
I remember reading a review that showed DD-WRT did better on the WRT54G/L when it came to many connections, can't be bothered to find it though.
And not everyone has a spare PC laying around to turn into a router. (Nor do they want to pay for the extra power usage)
I got a new computer over the weekend, so shittons because I've been freshly installing some games on Steam
2gb a day for linux distros.
[editline]22nd March 2011[/editline]
In all seriousness, everything for GTAIV and Mass Effect on steam.
Last month i used 813GB which averages at 29GB a day.
What the hell are you guys downloading?
I mean, I use around 1.5 - 2 GB a day and that's with a lot of browsing, maybe some youtube, but 30 gig a day?
my usage is "off the charts"
[img]http://i.cubeupload.com/VE3DwB.png[/img]
:smug:
You do 30 gigs a day with downloading a couple of movies every now and then and watching some 1080p video.
Woah, I just realized that anyone with a cap that watched Sintel in Original-quality is probably fucking crying now.
Most of the scenes were in 4K.
WAN: ~6gb a day, including browsing, the occasional SD movie&TV / automated updates of servers / curl
LAN: about 15gb a day, most of my stuff is accessed via networks.
you can do a flow capture and make a neat explorable garden showing different protocol use
[url]http://www.selectparks.net/~julian/pg/[/url]
[img]http://selectparks.net/~julian/pg/images/pg_pre5-10.png[/img]
I have 150GB a month peak time cap (8AM till Midnight).
The rest of the time is truly unlimited bandwidth. I usually stay awake all night on my pc, so it works out for me.
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