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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Political Correctness: The insane doctrine that postulates that it - - is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
