Broadband monitor recommendation please.

Whil on dial-up I used the excelent DUN monitor.

Is there something similar for broadband. I have done a Google search
and most of the broadband monitors are all singing all dancing
sophisticated packages costing megabucks.

The main features I want is a graph and daily upload and download
volumes.

Advice please.

TIA

Phil

"Phil" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Whil on dial-up I used the excelent DUN monitor.
>
> Is there something similar for broadband. I have done a Google search
> and most of the broadband monitors are all singing all dancing
> sophisticated packages costing megabucks.
>
> The main features I want is a graph and daily upload and download
> volumes.
>
> Advice please.
>
> TIA
>
> Phil

http://www.dumeter.com/download.php

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 14:17:37 -0000, "Trev"
<trevbowdenATdsl.pipexDOTnet> wrote:

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>"Phil" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> The main features I want is a graph and daily upload and download
>> volumes.
>>
>> Advice please.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Phil
>
>http://www.dumeter.com/download.php
>
Wow, that was a fast response!

Many thanks.

Phil.

P.S. I've just downloaded it!

Phil wrote:


> The main features I want is a graph and daily upload and download
> volumes.

Do you have a router, or a USB modem?

If you have a router (and it is SNMP capable) you might look at the
freeware version of PRTG from http://www.paessler.com

But don't buy the commercial version of PRTG unless you're sure you
can't do it yourself with the opensource MRTG or RRDtool on which it
appears to be based.

> http://www.dumeter.com/download.php

or NetMeter (free)

http://readerror.gmxhome.de/

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In news:(E-Mail Removed),
Phil <(E-Mail Removed)> opined very noisily:
> Whil on dial-up I used the excelent DUN monitor.
>
> Is there something similar for broadband. I have done a Google search
> and most of the broadband monitors are all singing all dancing
> sophisticated packages costing megabucks.
>
> The main features I want is a graph and daily upload and download
> volumes.
>
> Advice please.
>
> TIA
>
> Phil

Google for "NetMeter" its free!!
HtH
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On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 15:54:31 GMT, "Yddap" <(E-Mail Removed)>
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>Google for "NetMeter" its free!!

See http://readerror.gmxhome.de/
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>The main features I want is a graph and daily upload and download
>volumes.

Provided free to PlusNet customers via their website.
Other ISP's don't ?
Regards,
Martin

Andy Burns wrote:

> But don't buy the commercial version of PRTG unless you're sure you
> can't do it yourself with the opensource MRTG or RRDtool on which it
> appears to be based.

If I may comment in this last point? :-)

Being one of the developers of PRTG I can assure you that it is not at
all based on any Open Source project, PRTG Traffic Grapher was
completely developed from scratch in house by our team!

The reason we initially began developing PRTG was our own daunting
experiences with setting up MRTG for our own systems... (7 pages
"simple" installation instructions...?!?!)
:-)

Dirk Paessler
Paessler GmbH, CEO
www.paessler.com

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Being one of the developers of PRTG I can assure you that it is not at
> all based on any Open Source project, PRTG Traffic Grapher was
> completely developed from scratch in house by our team!

My apologies, I have seen PRTG mentioned on the BBUK website, but not
used it myself (my home router is not SNMP capable, but it can give
traffic stats via multicast) the similarity in the names, the format of
the graphs led me to believe PRTG was based on MRTG.

> The reason we initially began developing PRTG was our own daunting
> experiences with setting up MRTG for our own systems... (7 pages
> "simple" installation instructions...?!?!)
> :-)

I've used both MRTG & RRDtool, they do take some configuring, but I like
people to see and try opensource alternatives before deciding whether
they need to spend money on commercial software ...