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Oct 13, 2004, 04:14 AM
 
Our ISP had a monthly traffic limit for cable but they provide no way to check the current level. Is there some way I can track this in Terminal or some such? (And reset it each month)
     
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Oct 13, 2004, 05:14 AM
 
I believe MenuMeters will do what you ask, and much, much more:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10451
     
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Oct 13, 2004, 05:18 AM
 
Sorry you have to put with such a ridiculous restriction, unless you're talking about a huge amount of transfer a month.

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Oct 13, 2004, 03:02 PM
 
Originally posted by Big Mac:
Sorry you have to put with such a ridiculous restriction, unless you're talking about a huge amount of transfer a month.
He didn't say how much he was limited to.

But he also didn't say if the company told him (or documents) that there actually is an enforced limit. Otherwise, they are breaching their contract with him (unless they have changed it on the fly, which pretty much all companies say they are allowed to do).

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Oct 13, 2004, 03:25 PM
 
Menu meters is great but you may want to write the numbers down every night because if you restart the computer it will restart its count of traffic totals.
     
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Oct 13, 2004, 03:47 PM
 
Activity Monitor will tell you how much traffic you've had, but only since the last boot.
     
   
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