Topic: Monthly Bandwidth Monitor Widget? Anyone know a good one?

[Lumi Kløvstad]

My family has a bandwidth cap from our ISP. 100GB of activity is allowed for the three of us per month before the overage charges set in. That's uploads and downloads combined. I like to game, watch YouTube, and stream music via Pandora. My dad likes to download movies and music on iTunes, and my Mom likes herself some Netflix Instant.

Naturally, this all snowballs and can easily kill our limit if we're not watching.

But therin lies the rub. As my Dad is the account holder with our ISP, they only let HIM view active use statistics, so my mom and I are in the dark almost constantly until the plug is pulled and we're told we were approaching the limit.

So what I need is a little gadget/app for Windows 7 (and Vista if available) that sits on the desktop that tells me at a glance how much of a pre-set bandwidth quota I've used per month.

There are a lot of network monitors out there, but they all feed me too much information. I just need something that says "you have used X bandwidth of your available Y this month" and that's all. I don't care about speed or connection strength statistics. I just need that simple bare-bones data.

Does anyone know of a Windows desktop gadget that does that?

[uzo]

I'm unaware of one, since I use a modified firmware for my router to give me all that information, and much more. However, this made me curious as to my own bandwidth usage.

For the month of August thus far, I have 52GB down, 10GB up. That limit of yours is horribly unacceptable. I'll reach it by the end of next week without question.

What's eat that usage up?

3 minecraft servers
a project management server
private file share
Netflix
Toonami Aftermath