Monitor Your Bandwidth w/ Surplus Meter 6
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If you are on a limited broadband connection or want to simply know where all of the bits and bytes go you may want to monitor your Internet connection. The app that I am going to do a mini review of today is called Surplus Meter and is designed to record how much bandwidth you are using.
Once as you have downloaded the app and installed it into the Applications it is very simple to use. The top section details the start of the month (if you don’t start it on the first), it also details the amount you want to limit. There is also a drop down box which you have to change if you are on ethernet or Airport.
The second half of the program details the amount you have used and the amount remaining, in both up and down. There is a lot of statistical information about the amount you have used per day, the amount remaining per day and general usage.
It is a very good free tool. It does enable you to monitor traffic easily, but it can’t differentiate between more than one traffic. As well as this if do have a NAS drive or more than one computer it will monitor traffic between the computers. You can pause and restart the monitor at any time. Very useful, although it is a bit limited.
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6 Responses to “Monitor Your Bandwidth w/ Surplus Meter”
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I using this as I’m on holiday with a 3GB allowance for 30 days on a usb modem, I must say it’s very handy, and as I’m only going to be using it 25 days out of the 30 contract it gives me extra MB to add to my daily allowance.. :-)
Comment By Aniya on August 16th, at 11:47 pm
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I downloaded Surplus Meter when Comcast announced a 250 Gb monthly limit. So far it does not seem to be accurate. I tried downloading a couple of large files, and I noticed that it stopped counting downloaded bytes part way through the download. I also have iStat installed and it is giving me a very different report of how much I have downloaded.
Comment By Bill B on October 4th, at 1:19 pm
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Its not a perfect app I must admit. There may be a better one out there. For what I need to is perfect.
Comment By admin on October 4th, at 4:58 pm
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I am running Windows XP. Any prospect of an application for Windows in the near future?
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