Re: Mobile broadband statistics

[Jonathan Petersson <jpetersson garnser se>]

If you look at /proc/net/dev once connected there's counters available
showing how much data that has been transferred, I believe this
counter will reset each time the interface is disconnected from your
computer.

Your best choice is probably to write a script that counts the data
from /proc/net/dev when connected and summarizes this.

/Jonathan

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Tim Hawkins <tim hawkins me com> wrote:
> This would be a great feature, can i also request that you also consider pay
> as you go subscriptions, which have a capped limit of both data and time, so
> it would be great to have a counter start tool that could be used to count
> time and usage. So users could access how much usage they have left before
> needing to buy a top up.
>
> A manual period start mechanism that could be scheduled for contracts would
> cover both requirements.
>
>
> On 30 Apr 2009, at 22:14, Håvard Espeland wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently started using the mobile broadband feature of NM, and it
>> works great. Unfortunately, I have a monthly upper threshold on my
>> subscription, which I guess is pretty common. If I exceed this limit, I
>> will get charged excessively per MB transferred. In my case the
>> threshold is 500 MB per month, and since crossing such a boundary can
>> have severe impact on a user's bill, some statistics on usage would be a
>> welcomed feature.
>>
>> I propose adding integrated bandwidth usage statistics in NM that shows
>> total mobile broadband usage for this month and the last 30 days.
>>
>> --
>> Håvard Espeland
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