Re: [OT] Measuring network traffic AND Three Broadband

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Keith -

before we went with T-Mobile web'n'walk & the Nokia E61 + Samsung
'560,  I agonised very protractedly about download quantities &
'phone times ... I never did get a feel for what would be needed,
what others are using, etc ... but I took the plunge, and in
practice, we've never ever come anywhere near our limits ... their
minimum contract service would have been way more than we needed ...

which, of course, may be no help at all, 'cos how we use them may be
nothing like how you would use them ...

Chris


On 11 Nov 2007, at 16:34, Keith Doxey wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Is there a free or trial utility that will allow me to measure
> traffic from
> a machine to outside its own subnet.
>
> eg. machine is 192.168.0.xxx and I dont want to measure trafic to
> other
> machines within the house but want to measure everything passing
> through the
> router to my ADSL connection.
>
> Ideally I would like to be able to reset the traffic counter so I
> can see
> just how much typical activities use eg Downloading a whole days
> emails,
> reading and replying to a forum etc.
>
> I am thinking of getting GPRS modem from "Three" but need an
idea
> of typcial
> usage so that I can decide whether to go for the 1GB or 3GB option.
>
> I know many people here use T-Mobiles Web n Walk but I cant justify
> havign a
> contract mobile phone as I rarely use the phone I already have and
> the deal
> from Three sounds a perfect way of getting affordable data when I
> am out and
> about.
>
> Does anyone have experience of the Three Broadband service ?
>
> Also, with GPRS, is is possible to maintain a connection whilst
> driving from
> cell to cell as you can with a phone call or do lose and remake the
> connection. eg would streaming a radio station work whilst driving
> around?
>
> Thanks
>
> Keith