I received my letter from Comcast this past week about the upcoming 250 GB bandwidth limit. I am lax to trust their own 2-3 GB as the median usage but have no idea what I am currently using. Curious, I downloaded several programs, Bandwidth Monitor 2 from Rokario Software Ltd. and ShaPlus bandwidth Meter 1.2. In 3.5 hours, they show about 3 GB of upload/download in a 3.5 hours! Am I reading the program logs incorrectly or am I actually running close to 1 GB per hour! That would put me at 700GB+ per month and that seems ridiculous. I have done nothing spectacular (that I know of) other than e-mail and web browsing.
Any suggestions on how to monitor the internet connection. I have a local lan with 2 computers and one laptop running (none of which is doing any significant downloading). Am I monitoring the LAN or the internet connection with these programs? The programs seem to be monitoring the network card and I am now wondering if I am monitoring the lan communication between the computers in addition to the internet connection. Looking for a freeware solution just to make sure I am not going to run into trouble with the Comcast police next month! I really appreciate any input and/or suggestions on how to get to the bottom of this question. I am running Vista Ultimate x64 up-to-date, Avast! Anti-virus (no problems found), Windows Defender and the built-in firewall. Thanks for any insight. Jim Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
