On 11/27/18 12:27 PM, Tim via users wrote:
Tim:
>> If I want to check on how much data my computer's been putting
>> through my ISP over the last few days, is there anything logged by
>> default that I can look at, or do need to install something extra?
Ed Greshko:
> Are you saying you have a single system with only traffic going to
> the ISP?
No, it's several devices going through a modem/router, which doesn't
really give enough info, so I was hoping I could find something on the
computer to rule it in or out as being the sudden upturn in traffic.
While basic info is easy to find out (like how much data since it
connected), that doesn't tell me anything about what it used yesterday,
or the day before, etc.
I'd been keeping an eye on that, day by day, manually, as I was getting
closer to going over my monthly quota, then suddenly I've been rated
limited as 12 gigs has gone through *somewhere*.
To make matters worse, the rate limiting is so severe that many
websites just time out and fail (including the ISP's own website).
While the ISP claims that they throttle you, rather than charge you
more or cut you off, to allow you to continue using the internet until
the next month, it doesn't work.
Conversely, when they had a network configuration fault that limited me
by the same amount, earlier this year, that speed was considered so
unusable as to be worthy of giving me a refund.
It seems that in today's modern high-bandwidth internet, if you can't
finish loading a page in a few seconds, it aborts on you. To be more
weird, the ISP has a transparent proxy, that ought to mitigate that
issue (they could grab the page in one go, and feed it to you slowly).
For the major ISP that is the backbone for the entire country, they're
very crap at doing their job.
Well, you could install cacti on a machine, then use it to collect and
graph the SNMP data from your devices--provided they provide SNMP
services and have MIBs you can use. That's what we do, but we're a
streaming company with a LOT of servers, switches and routers and two
10Gbps uplinks. Perhaps that's overkill for you.
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