Greg Buchner wrote:
At least at&t has not started anything about capping or extra charges on the DSL or U-Verse services, at least not ye, I don't do much D/L of files.In article <1inig4o.1rnv99n1nkjkvvN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>, dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:The ISP has a web page which I can visit to monitor my usage during the month. It has some nice graphs showing total usage for the month, daily usage (separated into upload and download), and can go down to hourly usage, including a CSV file I can download with detailed hourly figures. It isn't detailed enough to record the type of traffic or where it came from/to. Some other ISPs at least break it down into major categories (web, mail, other).Comcasts solution to this is: download metering software. We're not going to tell you anything until you go over the 250GB/month limit. And what we'll tell you will be a warning to not do it again.Personally, I installed dd-wrt in my LinkSys WRT54G v8 router. It's been working great and gives me an in/out count of the WAN port.It doesn't get as detailed as what you can get from your ISP, but it gives me enough to show that I don't think I need to be worried about the 250GB/month limit.Although, with a bandwidth cap, ad blocking software for web browsers now becomes mandatory on my machines, not optional.Greg B.
I had also pointed out that all data you see on the net is considered D/L, and was bitten saying it was only D/L, well everything is either D/L or U/L no matter if it is a file ore a stupid banner, which I block.
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