Overstepping bandwidth allowance

[Stargazer]

Last month we went over our 5GB bandwidth and got a warning letter from our ISP provider along with a suggestion to upgrade to a more expensive package.
Is there any way I can monitor the bandwidth we are using to prevent overstepping our limit?

[lazytown]

You could run a program like bandwidtrh monitor

http://www.bwmonitor.com/

This one cost $19.99 but seems to exactly what u want, you can set limits so it will warn you when you reach various limits etc

I am sure there is free ones out there as well though.

[Stargazer]

Thanks Lazytown, I'll look for freebies first but this will help me know what to look for.

[maidencaithness]

Last month we went over our 5GB bandwidth and got a warning letter from our ISP provider along with a suggestion to upgrade to a more expensive package.
Is there any way I can monitor the bandwidth we are using to prevent overstepping our limit?

Go to www.majorgeeks.com and go to the monitoring section are several bandwidth applications and a couple are freeware.

This site is always my first port of call for things like this.

[Metalattakk]

Have a search for an application called NetMeter.

A free, tiny program and it'll tell you exactly how much bandwidth (both up and down) you use on a monthly, weekly, daily or hourly rate. It'll also alert you at whatever limit you configure, and it hogs virtually no resources.

[lazytown]

Have a search for an application called NetMeter.

A free, tiny program and it'll tell you exactly how much bandwidth (both up and down) you use on a monthly, weekly, daily or hourly rate. It'll also alert you at whatever limit you configure, and it hogs virtually no resources.

looks exactly what stargazer is looking for.

I had to laugh though while looking at the options that it is allowing you to measure MiB and GiB.

Welldone on such a free find though, looks like it will do the job required.