Comments on: The 250 GB Challenge and How to Measure http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/08/31/the-250-mb-challenge-and-how-to-measure/ A Technology Crow in search of Bright Shiny Objects Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:24:17 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mike http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/08/31/the-250-mb-challenge-and-how-to-measure/#comment-57889 mike Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:06:51 +0000 http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/?p=2218#comment-57889 Thanks for the tip, I have been getting nervous about how the cap will affect me as I'm pretty sure I have crossed that threshold a few times in the past. Thanks for the tip, I have been getting nervous about how the cap will affect me as I’m pretty sure I have crossed that threshold a few times in the past.

]]> By: Dave B http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/08/31/the-250-mb-challenge-and-how-to-measure/#comment-57741 Dave B Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:38:20 +0000 http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/?p=2218#comment-57741 Its essentialy a tricked out, for fee, MRTP/RDDTool/Cacti for windows, but its not bad. ehh...I wouldn't, with that no bandwidth cap comes a 1 Mb circuit for $59 or 3Mb for $80 a month. The cable co has higher, but I've had bad encounters with them and am not interested. Its essentialy a tricked out, for fee, MRTP/RDDTool/Cacti for windows, but its not bad.

ehh…I wouldn’t, with that no bandwidth cap comes a 1 Mb circuit for $59 or 3Mb for $80 a month. The cable co has higher, but I’ve had bad encounters with them and am not interested.

]]> By: Chris http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/08/31/the-250-mb-challenge-and-how-to-measure/#comment-57736 Chris Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:29:12 +0000 http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/?p=2218#comment-57736 Hey Dave - I hadn't heard of PTRG before. I was just looking at their site and it looks pretty interesting. Thanks for that tip :-) Do check out NTop-XTRA though. It is pretty slick. I envy your lack of bandwidth caps. Hey Dave – I hadn’t heard of PTRG before. I was just looking at their site and it looks pretty interesting. Thanks for that tip :-)

Do check out NTop-XTRA though. It is pretty slick.

I envy your lack of bandwidth caps.

]]> By: Dave B http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/08/31/the-250-mb-challenge-and-how-to-measure/#comment-57723 Dave B Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:37:01 +0000 http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/?p=2218#comment-57723 I've had PTRG monitoring my network for ages just out of curiosity sake and DUMeter on my primary workstation for the same reason. PRTG doesn't sum by month with version 5 though(haven't upgraded to 7 yet) so I have to add up by hand if I want to know. I don't yet have to worry about bandwidth caps as thats one way the local telco differentiates itself from the local cable co...no caps. GCI(cable co) has had them since they first started selling cable modems due to the extremely limited bandwidth they had at the time(9 DS-3's into the entire state then) and they never got away from it. I may have to look at NTop-XTRA though. I’ve had PTRG monitoring my network for ages just out of curiosity sake and DUMeter on my primary workstation for the same reason. PRTG doesn’t sum by month with version 5 though(haven’t upgraded to 7 yet) so I have to add up by hand if I want to know. I don’t yet have to worry about bandwidth caps as thats one way the local telco differentiates itself from the local cable co…no caps. GCI(cable co) has had them since they first started selling cable modems due to the extremely limited bandwidth they had at the time(9 DS-3’s into the entire state then) and they never got away from it.

I may have to look at NTop-XTRA though.

]]> By: Chris http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/08/31/the-250-mb-challenge-and-how-to-measure/#comment-57517 Chris Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:39:23 +0000 http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/?p=2218#comment-57517 Whoops! Fixed the title (from MB to GB). How embarrassing. I don't torrent much any more besides the occasional linux distro so I don't think I'll ever approach 250. I just gotta keep an eye on my kids... Whoops! Fixed the title (from MB to GB). How embarrassing.

I don’t torrent much any more besides the occasional linux distro so I don’t think I’ll ever approach 250. I just gotta keep an eye on my kids…

]]> By: Mark http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/2008/08/31/the-250-mb-challenge-and-how-to-measure/#comment-57432 Mark Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:46:05 +0000 http://www.solo-technology.com/blog/?p=2218#comment-57432 Title wrong? My last ISP went from unmetered to 20GB or 50GB a month a year or two ago. It was costing me $70/mo but their uptime and tech support was excellent. I just moved to another with "unlimited" but it has fair use terms so they could throttle when they wished. The cost also dropped to $25 with a dedicated IP. But my usage is 60-70 a month if both girls are not at school and are streaming movies. Other than that - and if I did not choose to do a full MAME update it's less than 50gb. But I don't torrent or download movies which I guess is where most of the traffic comes from. Title wrong?

My last ISP went from unmetered to 20GB or 50GB a month a year or two ago. It was costing me $70/mo but their uptime and tech support was excellent.
I just moved to another with “unlimited” but it has fair use terms so they could throttle when they wished. The cost also dropped to $25 with a dedicated IP.
But my usage is 60-70 a month if both girls are not at school and are streaming movies. Other than that – and if I did not choose to do a full MAME update it’s less than 50gb.

But I don’t torrent or download movies which I guess is where most of the traffic comes from.

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