Internet Usage Checker

[redman41]

Can anyone recommend a safe site to download a 'Clock' to check my Internet usage per month.
I am on Option 1 with BT and exceeded my usage last month. My limit is 10Gb.
Many thanks

[Buenchico]

Free, popular and well-reviewed:
http://download.cnet....-2381_4-10398686.html

Chris

[redman41]

Many thanks for your help Buenchico ! I will download it shortly as I wanted something reliable and safe !
Thanks again !

[redman41]

Not sure if you are still around Buenchico, but I have tried all ways to download this programme and it will not install properly. Instead it goes into a Zip file and nothing happens. No Installation Manager or anything to indicate Prog is installing.
Any ideas please ?
Maybe someone else has some other ideas ?

[Buenchico]

Download the zip file.
Double-click on it to decompress it.
That should produce a new file, called 'BitMeterInstaller'
(I'd expect a new window to open, with that file in it. If not, use Start > Search to find out where it's been placed)
Double-click on that new file.
Click 'Run'

That should work ('cos I've just tried it!).

Chris

[AlBags]

It's fine.
EXTRACT the zip to the desktop and install from there.

[redman41]

Thanks Buenchico ! Got it now, just need to get the hang of it. Thanks

[redman41]

Now that I have figured out most of the settings the actual full Monthly Calculation will start on 1.12.10. It was only installed yesterday so what has gone before cannot be calculated.....not sure how accurate BitMeter is.

[eddiek]

had the same trouble.downloaded freebie " Networx " very easy to use & im old enough to remember Louis Bimpson

[bibblebub]

3 years ago when I bought a 3 mobile dongle (for which there is a draconian penalty for going over the monthly allowance) I tried 2 or 3 usage checkers and I'm fairly sure that Bit Meter was among them. But one - don't remember which it was - gave values that were significantly less than the others; when you are penalised for going over the limit, then you want over-estimation of usage, if anything.

The one I have used ever since is Networx http://www.softperfect.com/products/networx/ which can be about by as much as 2% over the course of a month i.e. a couple of hundred MB out of over 10GB.

[bibblebub]

Should have been "out by as much as 2%" in that last sentence.

[albaqwerty]

I feel your pain bibble. I changed to vodafone and they show the usage etc.

[bibblebub]

When you log on to 3 it tells you how much you have left for the month but I also use a free wifi connection for the building where I live, and so using Networx lets me calculate how much I have been using both the mobile and wifi connections (fair usage and all that guff).

In those months when I have had the wifi turned off all the time, a spreadsheet that I use to calculate these things gives a disparity of about 200MB, which can only be down to Networx being incorrect in its monthly totals.

[Rasman]

This is interesting as I'm with Virgin Broadband on their 's' package - which isn't advertised. I am capped daily at 200Mb between 09:00 and 21:00 but it's unlimited outside those hours..
I have tried several bandwidth usage monitors and have NEVER found an accurate or reliable one.

[bentaxle]

I had Bit meter it was awful I don't know if it was my 64 bit pc that it didnt like ,It would clock up at times when pc was off at the mains for days I also am with bt Option 1 and had an email telling me they are looking to offer there own meter in he future

[bentaxle]

Info taken off BT email redman hope its of help

From the first oct 1st 2010 wer'e lauching an online tool to help you monitor your monthly usage and will get in touch with more details
Havent heard from them so far