internet traffic controlling tool?

[chaoliang]

I'm looking for a small tool to control the amount of my internet traffic. Is there one to recommand? Thanks.

[Paddy]

Buy a clamp and attach it to your network cable. By increasing the pressure you can restirct the traffic though the cable.

P.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Dial-up!

[Wombat]

The serious answer: You need to be more specific. Do you want to monitor how many MB you upload/download? Do you want to make sure that certain applications always get bandwidth? Are you trying to share a connection with multiple computers?

[chaoliang]

The serious answer: You need to be more specific. Do you want to monitor how many MB you upload/download? Do you want to make sure that certain applications always get bandwidth? Are you trying to share a connection with multiple computers?

Yes, Wombat, my question was too vague. I only need to monitor the total amount of data transfered through my internet connection via a DSL-router. Two computers are conneced to the router.

Paddy: I tried but it didn't work as I imagined. Maybe I bought a wrong clamp?

Chrono: For sure. But I don't like the neutered Google running around there (in Chinese Google could mean "a lonely dog")

Jon: Oh, that idea brings me back to the good old days - One had to buy some computer magazines for the CDs in them, since downloading Windows updates was merely too expansive, if one could download them completly at all!

[Marshmallowman]

Does your ISP have any online tools, mines got a volume usage thingy for that

[az]

I don't think there is any reasonable solution to measure traffic between the router and the internet, if your router doesn't provide this. You could get software to meter the traffic from each of your machines, though.

[chaoliang]

Marshmallowman: No, my ISP doesn't provide such a tool. And its online volume counter refreshes only very irregularly.

AZ: Well, it will be enough to monitor my computer only. The other one goes seldom online.

[KeiFront]

NetLimiter free lite version or Du Meter will be able to monitor your upload/download volume on your main PC.

[Fat Tone]

My router has a stats page with packet counts. I guess if you know the size of your packet...

[chaoliang]

NetLimiter free lite version or Du Meter will be able to monitor your upload/download volume on your main PC.

OK, I tried three progs: NetLimiter, Net Traffic Meter and DU Meter. To my surprise they give me quite different results at the end of the day. The difference is about 30% between DU (counted the traffic suspicously high , much higher than eMule counted for itsself) and Net Traffic Meter, while NetLimiter lies quite closely to the latter. I'm not sure if I should rely on these tools.
As next step I'll check what my ISP online counter says and make a comparison.

[VJ]

Windows provides for network traffic meters. Tools like Samurize can be used to make a window/panel that shows this data with some history as well.
You can even get data from a remote machine.

EDIT: this meter doesn't keep counting, so when you reboot your computer, it starts back on 0 (might not be that interesting)

Jörg

[KeiFront]

Chaoliang, make sure it's montoring the correct interface I guess DUMeter is counting Wan and Lan traffic. I've been using it for more then 2 years and it's pretty accurate compared to my isp monitor.

[chaoliang]

KeiFront: That's indeed an important point that I oversaw. But in the Network interface option I have only the choice of Intel Network Connection since the ADSL-router is connected to it. How can I tell DU to seperate LAN and Modem? The help file says one can set up to monitor PPP connection only, but how? There is no such an option. In Net Traffic Meter there is an option of "ignore local connection", and in NetLimiter one can choose the zone "internet", but in DU?

Edit: DU counted much more traffic even the LAN was totally inactive.

[KeiFront]

The help file says one can set up to monitor PPP connection only, but how? There is no such an option.

Du Meter Options -> General tab -> Network interface to monitor -> Dial-Up connections only.