On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Steve Comstock <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > > Sounds very odd. Does your gut tell you that you are moving that much data a month? > -- > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
