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Measure Your Bandwidth Usage With SurplusMeter

Started by webomatica · 5 months ago

What with pretty much every service provider saying bandwidth caps and/or overage fees are inevitable, measuring your bandwidth usage over a period of time is a good exercise, if only to know what you may be in for in the future. Surplus is an OS X application that measures your bandwidth usage. I first heard about it from Ross at SimpleHelp. ... Continue reading »

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  • Mike

    5 months ago

    A good way around that is to measure your bandwidth at the router - not all routers seem to support it, though, and it took some technical work to get it working properly for me.

    I'd hope my ISP would keep track and tell me, but that's not the case...and I don't know that I'd trust them if they did provide the data.
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  • webomatica

    5 months ago

    Yeah, now that I think about it, my router has bandwidth tracking.
    However, I do like that SurplusMeter is displayed on the desktop so I
    can look at from time to time and even watch it update as I surf the
    web (there are some big websites out there).
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  • Shey

    5 months ago

    Sweet, Thanks Jason! Look forward to testing it out
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  • Shey

    5 months ago

    Or NOT...how did I missed the part about it only being for OS X....argh
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  • webomatica

    5 months ago

    Oh yeah - sorry, I'm a Mac guy and pretty much all the desktop software I
    profile is OS X. Thanks for reading and commenting anyhow.
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  • matt

    2 months ago

    Very nice layout and consuming less memory ...getting accurate stats

    Good share
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