{"id":2015,"date":"2011-05-28T09:59:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T13:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=2015"},"modified":"2011-05-28T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T14:00:24","slug":"how-to-monitor-your-internet-usage-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-monitor-your-internet-usage-bandwidth\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Monitor Your Internet Usage (bandwidth)"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a lot rumors that come and go about ISPs and their ideas \t\t\t\tfor charging for customers’ for extra bandwidth usage. Some \t\t\t\tISP’s are still toying with the idea of limiting bandwidth or \t\t\t\tcharging customers for exceeding a predetermined monthly \t\t\t\tbandwidth allowance. Bandwidth limits may well be something some \t\t\t\tof us will have to deal with eventually. As more and more \t\t\t\tsmartphones and iPads and other ultra-portable devices connect \t\t\t\tto the Internet and gobble up more and more bandwidth, ISPs are \t\t\t\tbound to have to increase the amount of bandwidth they offer; \t\t\t\tand that’s going to cost them more money. If they have to pay \t\t\t\tmore, you can bet you will have to as well.<\/p>\n

Companies are working hard to make packages containing less \t\t\t\tproduct look the same size – so they can sell a smaller amount \t\t\t\tof product for the same amount of money. For example: Skippy \t\t\t\tpeanut butter: They’re putting bigger “dimples” in the bottom of \t\t\t\ttheir peanut butter jars so the jars look the same size but \t\t\t\tcontain 2 ounces less peanut butter. They sell jars missing 2 \t\t\t\tounces of product for the same price as the old jars with a \t\t\t\tsmaller dimple in the bottom. They should have just left the \t\t\t\tquantity alone and raised the price rather than trying to fool \t\t\t\tthe consumer. But it seems consumers like to think they’re \t\t\t\tsaving money – or at least not spending more.<\/p>\n

The same thing holds true for ISPs. If they want to make more \t\t\t\tmoney, just charge more money, instead of using overage fees \t\t\t\t(fines) to stick it to the customer. Right now, no U.S. ISP (we \t\t\t\tknow of) is charging a bandwidth fee to those who exceed a \t\t\t\tcertain amount of bandwidth. Comcast tried it, but soon \t\t\t\tabandoned it – probably because none of their competitors \t\t\t\tfollowed their lead.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it’s interesting to see how much bandwidth you use. And \t\t\t\tthere’s a free program you can download to help you track your \t\t\t\tbandwidth usage. It’s called NetMeter. NetMeter keeps your total \t\t\t\tbandwidth usage for each day of the month, shows you your \t\t\t\tcurrent month totals and a lot more. NetMeter is something all \t\t\t\tof us using high-speed Internet connections may eventually need; \t\t\t\tfor now, it’s fun to see how much bandwidth we use. Well, maybe \t\t\t\tit’s kind of geeky? Still it’s fun! NetMeter works with Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 – 32 bit and 64bit.<\/p>\n

You can read more about \t\t\t\tNetMeter and download it free from this page<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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There are a lot rumors that come and go about ISPs and their ideas for charging for customers’ for extra bandwidth usage. Some ISP’s are still toying with the idea of limiting bandwidth or charging customers for exceeding a predetermined monthly bandwidth allowance. Bandwidth limits may well be something some of us will have to deal with eventually.\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[1085,1237,1236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}