How to list this data -

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Sun Nov 1 00:13:08 UTC 2009


On 31/10/09 19:11, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> On Saturday 31 October 2009 11:41 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>
>> My objective being to keep a record of daily bandwidth usage. [35% or
>> 6.0 gB is my current usage, 17.0 the 30 day download allotment, the
>> other numbers for upload usage.]
>
> I know this is not the answer to your question but since you mention 
> you want to monitor your bandwidth usage, you could try vnstat[1]. Its 
> a very nifty light weight utility which keeps track of your network 
> traffic by running cron jobs at small intervals of time[2] and 
> presents all the information in neat graphs on the console.

Yes that looks interesting, new to me ...

If it correlates with the Wildblue data, even approximately, it would 
work for me. But then I have other computers in the house on this 
system. Might be able to take data before the router with an eth. hub 
perhaps?

Thanks.

Bob




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