online usage monitor

snadge · Sep 07, 2010, 23:30:46

Hi all

does the online customer usage monitor reflect figures instantly or does it take a while to update like 24 hours?

are theyre any XP compat apps that fetch IDnet stats to desktop?

we used BitMeter to record my dads usage before midnight (he's on 10/30 package) and he used about 8.5Gb so we just want to make sure he doesnt go over his 10Gb allowance

thanks

Rik · Sep 07, 2010, 23:36:44

The easiest thing for XP, Snadge, is to sign up to the RSS feed from the customer portal. IDNet will email him if he's likely to go over, but the RSS feed will give him actual and projected usage each day. Updates occur when BT radius servers send the data. That's at least once a day and can be hourly.

snadge · Sep 07, 2010, 23:40:31

Quote from: Rik on Sep 07, 2010, 23:36:44
The easiest thing for XP, Snadge, is to sign up to the RSS feed from the customer portal. IDNet will email him if he's likely to go over, but the RSS feed will give him actual and projected usage each day. Updates occur when BT radius servers send the data. That's at least once a day and can be hourly.

thanks again Rik

will have a look at it -

just out of interest, do you know of any usage apps that get near enough same recorded usage as IDnet cos I know lots of them never get it right

cheers

Rik · Sep 07, 2010, 23:42:28

Most measure LAN traffic as well as WAN, so they are never really accurate. One of our members has written a widget for Win 7, but I've not seen anything really good for XP. What email client does he use?

snadge · Sep 07, 2010, 23:55:59

Quote from: Rik on Sep 07, 2010, 23:42:28
Most measure LAN traffic as well as WAN, so they are never really accurate. One of our members has written a widget for Win 7, but I've not seen anything really good for XP. What email client does he use?

he uses hotmail and windows live mail program (sometimes - he used to doin it in browser now)

ive got the RSS url and sent it too him with instructions..

he has windows 7 still unopened had it since it was released hehe he supposed to upgrade the computer (im supposed to build a better one) but never happens plus I live so far away - it will get done soon i will talk him into it otherwise windows 8 will be out by time he uses it hehe

Rik · Sep 07, 2010, 23:56:54

Shame he doesn't use Outlook, there's an add-on for that which works well.

Bill · Sep 07, 2010, 23:59:49

tbbmeter might be worth a look.

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

I don't know too much about it 'cos there's no Mac version yet (

) but it'll work on XP and the latest version can separate WAN and LAN traffic. It's still being developed to some extent, but you have to register for the beta.

Discussion forum here:

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

snadge · Sep 08, 2010, 00:04:40

Quote from: Bill on Sep 07, 2010, 23:59:49
tbbmeter might be worth a look.

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

I don't know too much about it 'cos there's no Mac version yet ( ) but it'll work on XP and the latest version can separate WAN and LAN traffic. It's still being developed to some extent, but you have to register for the beta.

Discussion forum here:

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

thanks bill, we'll look into it...