The suggestion on this thread are interesting. But tcpdump -n is pretty 
manageable over a modem link and shows you exactly what you want to know, not 
just a summary of it. 

Alan Corey [ab...@devio.us] wrote:
> I'm on a modem, so there's only about 3 K/sec anyway, but is there
> anything that'll show me at least pids of what's using bandwidth?
> I've learned to close Firefox and even mc sessions I'm not using,
> and I'm watching a wget download and pftop and "netstat -b -I tun0
> -w 1".
> 
> I've got it under control right now by shutting off my wireless
> access point because my Kindle Fire was talking to s3.amazonaws.com.
> Poking around in userland ppp sources I see something called
> netgraph.  How do I use that and what does it do?
> 
>   Alan

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