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    Bandwidth Meter?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by shotmillions, Jun 9, 2008.

  1. shotmillions

    shotmillions Notebook Geek

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    Hi just wondering if you could help, I am on the road now and have got 3GB Download Bandwidth on my cell phone to use with my laptop, but if i go over 3 gb its a extra 10p per mb which is alot really...

    Anyway need a bandwidth meter of what im downloading/uploading for VISTA free or paid dont care.

    By the way just wondering will it slow down my connection?
     
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  2. AKAJohnDoe

    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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  3. atbnet

    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    I use Net Meter. It is a lot like DU Meter, but free.
     
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  4. shotmillions

    shotmillions Notebook Geek

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    Yeah just tried that Net Limiter its crap lol il try net meter hehe
     
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  5. WILLY S

    WILLY S I was saying boo-urns

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    Netmeter only shows uploads for me, i've also had this problem with bitmeter and a few others :( Think it may be vista..
    Any ideas?
     
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    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    Sometimes you need to change the interface it monitors. I have mine set to All Interfaces and it works fine on Vista. Have you grabbed the latest version?
     
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  7. WILLY S

    WILLY S I was saying boo-urns

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    Hmm did a bit of messing around with it and it didn't work:\ They work fine on my old laptop with windows xp..
     
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  8. shotmillions

    shotmillions Notebook Geek

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    i kind of wanted something like TOTAL DOWNLOADED TOTAL UPLOADED and nothing else really?
     
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    orev Notebook Virtuoso

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    I recently tried Netlimiter Monitor (freeware), and it's very nice. I suspect you say it's crap because you don't know how to use it. Once you start it up and let it run for a while, you can click on the "Show stats" icon in the top-right corner (it looks like a bar graph next to the "N"). It will show you stats by hour, day, week, month, etc...
     
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    NetLimiter Monitor free kept loosing the stats for me, so I gave up on it.
     
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