Software to keep track of internet usage?

[techs]

Does anyone have any recommendations on good, free Windows (xp and/or vista) software to keep track of bandwith usage?
I am going to put something like tomato on my router eventually, but I would like some software for now.
Ideally the software would distinguish between intranet traffic and internet traffic.
thanks

 

[ultra laser]

I use NetMeter and I couldn't be happier. It actively shows your current bandwidth usage and logs your daily/weekly/monthly usage stats. You can set it to alert you when you're nearing a certain limit, if you choose to do so.

http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: ultra laser
I use NetMeter and I couldn't be happier. It actively shows your current bandwidth usage and logs your daily/weekly/monthly usage stats. You can set it to alert you when you're nearing a certain limit, if you choose to do so.

http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/

So far I like it. Thanks for the link :^)

 

[Schadenfroh]

DD-WRT firmware for my router has this feature.

 

[PremiumG]

Schadenfroh,

i have dd-wrt too, where is this feature?

 

[abaez]

Need tomato firmware.

I personally like http://www.netlimiter.com/. The gui is really nice and simple.

 

[techs]

So far I have tried the Netmeter and it looks pretty good.
Gonna try the Netlimiter in a few days.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: PremiumG
Schadenfroh,

i have dd-wrt too, where is this feature?

Do you have the latest version? If so, look under one of the tabs under "Status".

 

[plion]

I'm using version 24sp1 ddwrt and i can confirm it was a nice little graph telling you how much bandwidth used per month/day.

here's a screen
http://img67.imageshack.us/my.php?image=captureqw7.jpg

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: PremiumG
Schadenfroh,

i have dd-wrt too, where is this feature?

Status > wan, irrc

 

[Rebel44]

Originally posted by: ultra laser
I use NetMeter and I couldn't be happier. It actively shows your current bandwidth usage and logs your daily/weekly/monthly usage stats. You can set it to alert you when you're nearing a certain limit, if you choose to do so.

http://www.metal-machine.de/readerror/

I has one disadvantage - if you have more computers it will also count traffic between them - yesterday I downloaded my Steam folder from my gaming rig to my laptop and log from NetMeter shows 120GB upload for that day 🙂

 

[heymrdj]

Another vote here for Netmeter. I use it all the time on every machine, even servers.