[TriLUG] Time Warner Responds to bandwidth concerns

[Greg Brown]

Very cool!

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:

>
> > Bring a supposed "heavy user" I ought to reset the counters on my
> firewall
> > at the beginning of next month and see how much I really use.
>
> Folks with Tomato routers can easily see a chart of how much bandwidth they
> use.
>
> I use a Linux box as a router, and I recently installed a package called
> "vnstat".  It simply wakes up every 5 minutes and jots down the current
> number of bytes sent and received on each interface.  Check out this output.
>
> Alan
>
> ----
>
> root at bender:~$ vnstat -h   # hourly
>  eth0
> 11:55
>   ^
> r
>   |
> r
>   |
> r
>   |                    r                             r
> r
>   |                 r  r                             r
> r
>   |                 r  r                             r              r
> r
>   |                 r  r                             r              r
> r
>   |                 r  r                             r              r
> r
>   |                 r  r                             r              r
> r
>   |         t       r  r        r  r                 r        r     r
> r
>  -+--------------------------------------------------------------------------->
>
>   |  12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10
> 11
>
>
>  h   rx (kB)    tx (kB)      h   rx (kB)    tx (kB)      h   rx (kB)    tx
> (kB)
> 12       3548       6202    20       2397       1360    04      79643
> 3152
> 13        311        250    21      11456       1377    05
> 1590        388
> 14       1062       9819    22      13451       3365    06
> 353        242
> 15        342        242    23       2762       3699    07
> 10271        510
> 16        272        236    00       2424       4044    08
> 606        360
> 17      55461       7024    01       2412       4034    09      47114
> 2813
> 18      61238       4178    02       3084       5304    10       3125
> 2151
> 19       5084       2183    03       2215       3072    11      59412
> 3701
>
> root at bender:~$ vnstat -d   # daily
>
>  eth0  /  daily
>
>     day         rx      |     tx      |  total
>
> ------------------------+-------------+----------------------------------------
>    05.04.    359.80 MB  |   31.64 MB  |  391.44 MB   %%%%%%%%%%%:
>    06.04.    407.80 MB  |   38.80 MB  |  446.60 MB   %%%%%%%%%%%%%:
>    07.04.    653.96 MB  |  111.96 MB  |  765.92 MB
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%::::
>    08.04.    381.40 MB  |   59.57 MB  |  440.96 MB   %%%%%%%%%%%%::
>    09.04.    613.92 MB  |  144.83 MB  |  758.75 MB
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%:::::
>    10.04.    439.69 MB  |   59.27 MB  |  498.97 MB   %%%%%%%%%%%%%%::
>    11.04.    207.74 MB  |   29.27 MB  |  237.01 MB   %%%%%%:
>
> ------------------------+-------------+----------------------------------------
>  estimated      414 MB  |      58 MB  |     472 MB
>
> root at bender:~$ vnstat -m   # monthly
>
>  eth0  /  monthly
>
>    month         rx      |      tx      |   total
>
> -------------------------+--------------+--------------------------------------
>   Apr '09       2.99 GB  |   475.34 MB  |     3.46 GB
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%:::
>
> -------------------------+--------------+--------------------------------------
>  estimated      8.55 GB  |     1.33 GB  |     9.87 GB
>
> root at bender:~$
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