Bandwidth monitoring program?

[Niall]

I've just been looking at my bandwidth usage and I'm certain it's incorrect, especially as I know I downloaded from midnight in at least two of the last three nights (to avoid going over my limit again, which is starting to become a habit for me for some reason!) and it's showing nothing/next to nothing for two nights.

I've already sent an email to support to check on this. If it's this wrong it's possible that the whole month is wrong. Even if it means I owe them money I'd rather have something I can rely on to check it, just for my nerdy peace of mind!

So, can anyone recommend a program for 64bit Vista? Years ago (back in the Windows Millenium days) I used Netlimiter which was a great little program, especially on my then ICS network (which thankfully I don't use anymore!).

Any ideas?

[Lance]

Netmeter is good but I think it counts LAN traffic too.

[DarkStar]

Have a look at this one from ThinkBroadband, I have used it and found it pretty accurate - very configurable with warnings that you can set yourself and hourly figures along with peak and off-peak settings. Get the second one without isposure if you are touchy about privacy 

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/tbbmeter.html

Edit; my bad. I just realised you said 64 bit

[zappaDPJ]

I've been running tbbMeter without isposure on both a Vista 32 and 64 bit platform for around 6-8 weeks. It seems to be quite accurate (I have tested it against a number of downloads).

Just for the record I installed it along with a few other tools because I'm not convinced by my usage stats either.

[Niall]

Well IDnet got back to me saying the bandwidth record they hold is correct. The figures show next to nothing after midnight for about 3 days, when I know for a fact that I downloaded most things after midnight as I was close to my limit during peak times. In fact I've now gone over my limit as I bought Football Manager 2010 via Steam yesterday!

It's strange that IDnet think I didn't download anything though when I know I did.

On the bright side they've suggested a couple of sources for bandwidth monitors, so I'll actively watch what goes on as of the start of the month.

[DarkStar]

On the bright side they've suggested a couple of sources for bandwidth monitors, so I'll actively watch what goes on as of the start of the month.

Any chance of sharing the sources for bandwidth monitors Niall, if ID Net suggested them I should think they are likely reasonably accurate. Would like to have a look at them and see if its worth adding them to my tool box.
Also be a reference for others looking for one anytime.

[Niall]

Oops sorry, I thought I'd posted it. http://www.thinkbroadband.com/tbbmeter.html was one, and the other was netmeter. I've not looked at either yet as I've been busy this weekend, so I couldn't tell you anything.

I did notice Netlimiter seems to be still going as I saw someone mention it on another forum I was briefly reading, whilst looking for something unrelated, yesterday.

[DarkStar]

Thanks Niall. Having used all three a couple of points if your not familiar with them. NetMeter is my favorite but does not show hourly usage so although you can see daily, weekly usage etc it will not tell where during the day it was used. Netlimiter2 free will and has a couple of other useful tools in that you can sometimes track down what program was using the bandwidth but it can be quite difficult to uninstall afterwards, you have to dig about  in Windows services to stop it running first.
The ttb meter is probably the best, easy to install and doesn't leave anything behind and should give you all the info you need - hourly, daily, alarms etc. All the bells and whistles but very easy to configure and use 

[Rik]

I'd agree, Ian.