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ecksmen
11-05-2007, 05:43
Can someone please tell me how I can get the bandwidth I have used from Virgin Media, I don't seem to be able to find any status pages?
Sirpingalot
11-05-2007, 05:55
Are you asking how you can check up how much bandwidth you've used over a certain period of time? If so, then you'd have to download an application that would allow you to do this.
Mick Fisher
11-05-2007, 07:25
I only have the one computer connected directly to a SACM. In this situation a monitor such as DUmeter does the job. :tu:

For a home network things are not so simple :td: although I believe it can still be achieved. Perhaps someone more knowledgable of this will be along to elaborate.

As far as VM are concerned, it appears to be to tall an order for them to provide what would appear to be such a basic service. :dunce:
ecksmen
11-05-2007, 09:10
Well I have several machines, all behind a router so just measuring nic bandwidth isn;t enough I need to know the WAN traffic only.

So VM don't carry this information?
Sirpingalot
11-05-2007, 09:17
Well I have several machines, all behind a router so just measuring nic bandwidth isn;t enough I need to know the WAN traffic only.

So VM don't carry this information?

I don't believe they do, unfortunately. You could give them a call, and see if they can help you out though.
Alto
11-05-2007, 10:09
Would have been a nice feature to introduce on the customer account page, along with the traffic shaping and £2 increase, wouldn't it.
altis
11-05-2007, 10:15
You can glean a little information from your cable modem. It will give you the total number of packets in and out of each interface over a period. Unfortunately, there is no mention of the number of bytes.

http://192.168.100.1/P_rate.htm

The username and password are both 'root' by default.
Halcyon
11-05-2007, 10:41
You used to be able to install software that had a small program on each machine that then calculated bandwidth used on each system as a total. These no longer work though.

The only other sollution is installing one on each machine and manually adding each machine up to give you a total.
Netmeter (http://readerror.gmxhome.de/) is a good free bandwidth monitor.
PC_Arcade
11-05-2007, 10:49
You can glean a little information from your cable modem. It will give you the total number of packets in and out of each interface over a period. Unfortunately, there is no mention of the number of bytes.

http://192.168.100.1/P_rate.htm

The username and password are both 'root' by default.

You should be able to work it out from that though, just multiply by the packet size in bytes (1460)

Unfortunately not all of the modems show the packets in/out (the 250 I have doesn't)

Fortunately I have an snmp capable switch :)