On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Karanbir Singh <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 03/26/2011 10:52 AM, Abhinav Sahai wrote:
>
>> I have an Airtel broadband at home. As per Airtel's FUP even unlimited
>> plans
>> come with a 25GB cap on the usage.Even though i am on that plan since 8
>> months, since past 2 months after some 20 days i get a mail from airtel
>> saying that my limit has expired and speed goes down to 256 KBPS (from 1
>> MBPS).
>>
>
> 25 GB ( bytes, not bits ) is quite a large amout of traffic to comsume in a
> single month, unless there is a lot of streaming, downloads of large media
> etc going on. At home, I seem to average about 18 - 21 GB a month, and this
> is including the fact that we do some streaming ( BBC's iplayer! in HD ) and
> i have internet radio running through the waking hours of the day.


Yup, that's why even I am wondering. While airtel's site shows up my usage
details including time/date and data transfered, i am quite unsure if that's
correct, however i can't complain until i have some proof from my side.

>
>
>  Is there a way i can find out the daily usage on each machine through a
>> setup on a *single* computer?
>>
>
> Does the router/modem device have an snmp option ?

Not sure if that's there, probably if you guide me on how to find that out,
i will be answer you. By the way, it's the default Beetel wifi router that
comes with Airtel connection, if that helps.


> that is the only way ( doing metrics at the edge ) that you are going to
> get accurate figures. Also might be worth making sure your neighbours are
> not 'sharing' the connections :)
>
Am sure they are not, as its secured and we know nobody in the
neighbourhood, yeah we are bad at that :)


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