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 :) > > - kB > > _______________________________________________ > Ilugd mailing list > > [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
