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