Comment from Chris Pepper
I would like: choose unlimited/medium/light/no bandwidth usage, based current Ethernet network (subnet/router) or AirPort network.At home & work I would have it unlimited; in other places I would...
View ArticleComment from Glenn Fleishman
I'm not talking in this article about home or office broadband, but rather situations in which you have a low throughput or a fixed, low limit. Thus, a per-computer measurement is all that's needed.The...
View ArticleComment from Michael Schmitt
The traffic reporting tools in the article measure a single computer. For example, Little Snitch will show traffic from the Mac it is installed on. (Rubbernet is an exception within limits.)But you...
View ArticleComment from Gary
I use MenuMeters from Raging Menace to visually monitor my network utilisation. (It only gives the overall network view, but it's waaay better than nothing at all.) My home broadband connection is...
View ArticleComment from Lou Krieg
Self regulation is an intelligent person's response to the problem, but sadly one that doesn't help with lots of clueless (or piggy) users sharing a hotel or Amtrak connection. Shared network routers...
View ArticleComment from David Morrison
A low-bandwidth situation that is likely to become more common is in-flight wifi. On one intercontinental flight recently, it cost $5 for 30MB of satellite traffic. Exceeding this cost something like...
View ArticleComment from Eleanor Batchelder
I live in Canada, where internet accounts have a monthly cap, with extra charge for more usage. It would be nice if there were a way to monitor usage on a local network (several computers, plus maybe a...
View ArticleComment from Glenn Fleishman
I would argue you may miss the point of this article, which is that many elements of your system automatically transfer large amounts of data without your explicit knowledge, nor is there any good way...
View ArticleComment from Joe Swann
I live in a rural area and would be interested in an article about dealing with bandwidth issues there. I had been a HughesNet customer for several years, but recently switched to Wild Blue Exceed. I...
View ArticleComment from Don Dueweke
I live in a remote location where my only choice for broadband is satellite or cellular. I found satellite to be unacceptable because of latency and data caps. My cellular currently doesn't have a cap...
View ArticleComment from Mac Bakewell
Thanks, Glenn, for this excellent piece, which reads like a collection of oft-revisited chapters in the story of of my peripatetic digital life. It seems apt that I'm writing this from the remote...
View ArticleComment from Mac Bakewell
Re Net Monitor & Net Monitor sidekick ...On Friday, July 27, 2012, Guy Meyer wrote: The web site is available athttp://netmonitor.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/I am working on Mountain Lion...
View ArticleComment from Em
I wish I had a solution to identify bandwidth usage by iPhone app. Our family iPhones have very low GSM data limits (200 Mbytes per month), because most of the time, they are connected to WiFi...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Check out DataMan. I'm testing it and although it's not perfect (not through its fault, I suspect, but iOS limitations), it will give you usage warnings when you exceed certain amounts per day, week,...
View ArticleComment from Mac Bakewell
I've played with that too, as even though our contract here in Thailand is for unlimited bandwidth I'm still curious to record the "mileage." DataMan seems to get the numbers right, and remembers them...
View ArticleComment from Nicholas Barnard
Glenn, You're missing part of the equation: The router needs to be able to report on its capabilities and the capabilities of the internet connection behind it.I can see this taking many forms, but the...
View ArticleComment from Glenn Fleishman
That's unlikely to happen, though I agree it's a good idea. For that to happen, you need revision in multiple operating systems, software, and routers. Too many different firms and moving parts.
View ArticleComment from Nicholas Barnard
And this is different from any other standard on the internet how? Put Dropbox, Crashplan, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Netgear, and a few others in the room, and have em hammer it out. That is after they...
View ArticleComment from Adam Engst
Just saw this app - Radio Silence - which might offer a decent interface to shutting down particular bandwidth offenders while traveling. http://www.macworld.com/article/1168097/
View ArticleComment from Hank Roberts
>> ... how to deal with permanently low-bandwidth scenarios ... If there’s interest, we’ll look into a separate article about that topic in the future.)Yes please. I'm doing forest fire...
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