Had a strange thing happen today. Basically Qwest, our broadband supplier, shut off access to the internet because we've supposedly exceeded our monthly download limit of 200GB.
Their phone menu system is awful so I ended up in an online chat with tech support. I didn't even know we had a limit. Even so, 200GB/month should be plenty of capacity. So I asked the guy how we can tell: how can we monitor download activity and find out where it's coming from and to at least keep an eye on things. He told me there were free download monitors available; but he wouldn't point me to any since they did not come from Qwest. So, I thought I'd ask this group if they had any recommendations; after all, installing software monitoring your network usage is opening up a lot of potential holes, it seems to me. So who can ya' trust? Bringing it back on topic: to get back connected to the internet I had to shut down my modem; which meant bringing down my browser, my email client, and my connection to the mainframe system in Dallas. Thanks for any insights / experiences you can share on this. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * z/OS application programmer training + Instructor-led on-site classroom based classes + Course materials licensing + Remote contact training + Roadshows + Course development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
