davegreenbaum on "Software to track bandwidth and associated programs."

davegreenbaum — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:20:08 +0000

I'm not aware of a program with that will directly track the bandwidth in and out. However i did the math, on a silver account you'd have to do an outrageous amount of downloads in one day to achieve 10 gig. I suspect their system is recording an error. As my twitter/facebook accounts, have shown, Sunflower is having serious problems.. . bordering on fraud. *We* had to pay for Geeks On Wheels to come to our home for cable modem problems. Sunflower SWORE it was our network and REQUIRED us to PAY Geeks to come to our home...only for geeks to say it was sunflower. Then they first believed us there was a problem in our node.

Change the password on your airport and set Mac filtering just to play it safe.

None of the activities you mention come anywhere close to maybe more than a gig. With 4 computers in the house we haven't had 10 gig in one day...worse was 6 when the Tivo kept downloading a show over and over

teacher24_70 on "Software to track bandwidth and associated programs."

teacher24_70 — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:15:28 +0000

Does anyone know of any software that will track my download (received) bandwidth and the programs that are using it?

This past month something has been zapping bandwidth like crazy. Most months I use less than 10 Gig of my 15 available through Sunflower. In March I actually came close to my limit with 14.5 GB.

However, in April I’m already up to 23.25 with 10-11 GB on April 4th alone. I called Sunflower right after that 10 Gig day and said that I wasn’t sure where that could have come from. I hadn’t had any large iTunes downloads, I hadn’t watched any streaming TV shows or movie videos, I hadn’t download any major software, etc. The only thing that I did that day that I could think of was that I had installed Foxmarks/Xmarks to synchronize bookmarks between Safari & Firefox. It’s possible that the syncing stalled out at some point and continued to zap the bandwidth, but I’m not completely convinced

They agreed to credit my account for that 10 GB, but even subtracting that I’m using more than I can mentally account for. I’m to the point that I’ve turned Airport off unless I need to turn it on temporarily to check mail or update my RSS feeds. Someone suggested that I turn off the Genius feature in iTunes because it sometimes eats up bandwidth.

So I began to search for software that might help me track down the culprit application. I thought that maybe “Little Snitch” would help, but it only seems to document outgoing information.

Istat Menus help a little. The Network Menu at least tracks and shows current bandwidth activity, but what I’d really like is something that tracks the sent/received bandwidth for different programs. For example, bandwidth associated with NetNewsWire, iTunes, Entourage, Safari, Firefox, etc.

Does anyone know if such a software exists?

-- Michelle

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