Monitoring Your Bandwidth Usage
June 17, 2007
Speedy, those words brings pros and cons to the people of Indonesia nowadays. They were the pioneer of relatively cheap ADSL connection in Indonesia courtesy of Indonesia’s biggest telco company, Telkom. In the country where Internet were synonyms to slow and expensive, Speedy arise as a savior for the needs to connect to the Internet for some.
Speedy has two service methods that they provide. Quota based and Time based. In quota based, you’re giving the choice to pick a service based by bandwidth quota. In time based, you will be charged based by the time you spend using Speedy (much like a dial-up based ISP’s).
But it has its downside. Some Speedy user reports that Telkom deceived them with its Speedy bills. The problem was the lack of transparency Speedy provides regarding the details of bandwidth consumption that the user use (particularly for quota-based users).
I myself use the so-called Personal Package where I can use one gigabyte of bandwidth every months. They charge Rp 500/MB of over quota bandwidth.
I share this connection with my old man downstairs. Though he hardly ever use it, still I’m a bit comfortable by the reports. So I occasionally use a bandwidth monitoring tools to keep an eye of the bandwidth that I use every time I connected.
In Linux, using Gnome, we can monitor our bandwidth consumption anytime using the Network Tools. Just go to System -> Administration -> Network Tools. In the Network Device drop-down menu, choose the appropriate interface that you use in connecting to the ADSL router (e.g., mine using the network card “eth0” Ethernet Interface).
The information that you must pay attention is the “Interface Statistic”. Add the number from “Transmitted bytes” and “Received bytes” and you will have the amount of bandwidth that you use in a particular connection.
Well this is a rough method that I use as a precaution from bandwidth over-quota. I believe there are more graceful and simple method that we can use. Any suggestions are very welcome!
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